Built by pastors, for pastors.
Two friends who preach every week.
Jon Tyson and John Mark Comer had been comparing notes on preaching for years: how they prepared, what was working, what was wearing them out. Both pastored weekly. Both had watched friends leave ministry not for lack of calling but for lack of a sustainable way to carry it.
The Art of Teaching began as a room in Franklin, Tennessee: a conference, then retreats and workshops, then a podcast with Jefferson Bethke. The sessions were filmed so pastors who could not travel could still sit in. That footage became Foundations.
Jeff is the third voice in the room. An ordained pastor who has preached in churches and at conferences for fifteen years, he is also the author of fourteen books and the maker of hundreds of hours of video and podcast teaching for a YouTube audience of 700,000. He brings the other half of the craft: how to say a true thing clearly to people who were not planning to listen.
Today more than 8,000 pastors across denominations have taken the course. Most of them found it the way you did: tired, on a Saturday night, looking for a better method.
Preaching is a craft and a formation.
A craft, because it can be learned, practiced and improved like any other. A formation, because it shapes the preacher before it shapes the room. A model can draft the first. It cannot do the second. We teach both, and we think the second is the point of the first.
The people who teach here.
Not theorists. Pastors who prepare and preach every week.
