Elizabeth Anderson equips believers to use their gifts for teaching and preaching. Additionally, she offers ongoing personal ministry coaching for pastors or leaders who are considering, revamping, or setting up new ministries. It is her passion to empower and encourage others to be all that God calls them to be for the ultimate purpose of building up the Kingdom of God.
Whether through showing others how to prepare expository Bible messages, mentoring leaders, encouraging high school and college students, or speaking to retreats and Bible studies, Elizabeth exudes enthusiasm for the Word of God and the people under her ministry.
At 40, this former research scientist answered the call to seminary she had been pushing to the side since childhood. While raising three children she obtained her Master’s of Divinity from the Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York and taught classes at Norton Presbyterian Church in Darien, CT as the Director of Adult Spiritual Formation.
When God called her to teach the Word as the Teaching Director of the Greenwich Connecticut Evening Community Bible Study Class, the door was opened for her to begin preparing the Thoughtful Proclaimer Ministry. She began to study preaching in the doctoral program at Gordon-Conwell. She took what she learned about preaching for pastors and worked to adapt it into a method that would suit not only pastors but would be accessible to lay Bible study leaders.
As a Teaching Director for CBS, Elizabeth not only had the training, but the time to formulate a new method of Bible study for preachers and teachers. Her willing class commented and critiqued the messages as she tried new styles of preaching and built on her Thoughtful Proclaimer contemplative inductive theological exegesis method.
Elizabeth noticed that contemplative inductive Bible study methods could yield accurate Biblical teaching and preaching but even more, it was spiritually fulfilling. Rather than getting burned out preparing weekly messages and running a Bible study, Elizabeth found herself growing closer to God week by week as she studied the Word to prepare her messages. She wrote the Thoughtful Proclaimer book and runs Thoughtful Proclaimer seminars to equip others and also to give them a way to minister and teach over the long haul.
The Thoughtful Proclaimer method of message preparation builds you up rather than burning you out. In the Thoughtful Proclaimer method, Elizabeth stresses contemplative inductive personal Bible study, canonical contextual interpretation, and redemptive transformative messages.
Elizabeth’s doctorate is in “Preaching the Literary Forms of the Bible,” from Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts.
