5 More Ways to Recycle Your Sermon

Do you recycle? No, I’m not just talking about plastic bottles and Coke cans. Do you recycle your sermons?

Working hours every week on a single message only to throw it away when you are done is wasteful. Instead of throwing your sermons away, find creative ways to recycle them.

We have already covered a ton of different ways to use your sermon content in this series (links to all the posts are below). But as we wrap this thing up, I have a few more ideas that deserve to be mentioned but haven’t been featured in a post yet.

5 More Ways to Recycle Your Sermon

1. Re-preach – Re-preach a classic sermon from your archives. Preach it again in a different location or church. Preach it again at camps, conferences, or other church events.
2. Replay – Replay video highlights and celebrate what God has done in your church over the last year or through its history. Join the rapid growing multisite church movement and use video of your preaching to launch a new location.
3. Repackage – How many times have you preached about marriage? The principles of scripture never change. We just change the way we deliver it. So take principles you have already preached, refresh them and make a new series.
4. Revive – Be a grave-robber. Dig up old sermons that died long ago and use them. Post them on your website, blog, social media. Resurrect a timeless message.
5. Repurpose – Turn sermon content into a book. Use it for small groups. Use it for membership, baptism, or new believer classes. Turn it into an info packet for people wanting to know more about what your church believes about…

What Are You Doing?

Hopefully, some of these ideas have got you thinking about more and more great ways to extend your sermon’s life.

What are you doing? What have I missed? What is working for you? What hasn’t? I would love to hear it.

You spend too much time and energy on your sermon to allow it to die too soon. Get creative and find other ways to get more out of the hard work you are already doing.

Other posts in the Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan series:

• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 01: Too Young to Die
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 02: How to Record Your Sermons
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 03: Writing, Transcribing, and Archiving Your Sermons
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 04: How to Broadcast Your Sermon
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 05: The Pastor’s Guide to Blogging
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 06: 13 Ways to Extend Sermon Life With Social Media
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 07: How to Send Your Sermon Out on Mission
• Increase Your Sermon’s Lifespan 08: 5 More Ways to Recycle Your Sermon