Most pastors get informal feedback about their preaching
(3% – mostly li’l old ladies – will always say the sermon’s nice),
but most do not initiate a formal performance appraisal to get
wise/helpful suggestions. Bill Hybels asks his elders to do it:
twenty minutes after the end of the service the chairman of elders
gives him a composite written ‘report’. You need to have a high
self-esteem to do that. Show this to your pastor. Feel free to
adapt (and email any suggestions to me, please. Thanks!).

This draft was prepared by John Mark Ministries for
my wife Jan, an ‘ordained’ Baptist pastor.

PREACHING EVALUATION (Jan Croucher)

Dear ‘colleague in ministry’,

I’m working hard at the moment to sharpen my preaching
style and content, and w onder if you’d mind taking a couple of
minutes to fill in the following and ret urning to me after the
service? Thanks so much. Simply circle a number and ad d a comment
for each category.

SUBJECT-MATTER: Appropriate for this service 7 6
5 4 3 2 1 Inappropriate

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

INTRODUCTION: Captured attention/interest 7 6 5 4
3 2 1 Didn’t grab me

Comment: …………………………………………………………

SCRIPTURE EXPOSITION: Faithful to the text 7 6 5
4 3 2 1 Too ‘free’

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

STRUCTURE: Logical 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Hard to figure!

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

THEOLOGY: Appropriate for this congregation 7 6 5
4 3 2 1 Inappropriate

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

RELEVANCE/RELATED TO REAL LIFE: Yes 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
No

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

COMMUNICATION STYLE: Easy to listen to 7 6 5 4 3
2 1 Some mannerisms are ??

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

ILLUSTRATIONS: Appropriate/helpful 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
inappropriate

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

HUMOR: Appropriate to setting and sermon-points 7
6 5 4 3 2 1 inappropriate

Comment: …………………………………………………………

INTEREST-LEVEL: Wanted to hear more 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
You lost me occasionally

Comment: …………………………………………………………

COMMITMENT IMPACT: Life-changing 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Wishy-washy

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

WHOLE SERVICE: Well-integrated 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Not
well thought-out

Comment: ………………………………………………………..

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