Ask the Pastor: how do pastors decide what to teach

• How do you pastors decide what to teach — through books passage by passage, or topic to topic — and how do you know you are preaching what the people need rather than what you want?

Boova (speaker-2) brings his Ask-the-Pastor question: when you preach, do you go through books passage by passage or bounce around by topic, and how do you decide? He worries pastors preach what they want rather than what the congregation needs, citing Acts 2's picture of the apostles' teaching. Ben (speaker-0) spins the question into comedy: a five-pack of Gideon's fleeces for sale on Amazon, a mock ad read by Mike (speaker-1) ('Come on down to Gideon's fleeces. Just add water.'), and a bit about buying land in heaven with a deed.