There are two reasons for using inductive sermon outlines. First, it provides a structure to capture the listener’s attention and take them on journey to what you want to teach them. Second, it provides a structure to teach the narratives in Scripture. Narratives tell a story and the induct...
Choose a passage from the Bible as part of the theme of your sermon. You can select a biblical topic that you are familiar with such as a favorite parable, psalm or verse. Alternatively, you can refer to lectionaries like the "Revised Common Lectionary," which assigns a text to each day...
It is absolutely important to realize this fact. The sermon outline is the road map for the body of the sermon. Writing a sermon outline forces you to structure the sermon in such a way that it brings cohesion and sequence to the sermon. To put it simply, you will know what you are ...
The first phase to preach a sermon is to prepare the message. You can’t preach if you haven’t prepared. Sure, you might be able to wing a sermon or two, but that’s not sustainable, and it won’t be your best work. There are seven steps for good sermon prep. 1. Pray Prayer ...
Keep it moving to a next step Every gospel proclamation has three responses: surrender, rejection, or a request to hear more. You see those at the end of Acts 17. In the case of surrender or a desire for more information, you should have a biblical, short, and understandable way to mo...
Amish buggies outside a church gathering in Wayne County, Ohio Amish also take a literal Biblical view of church not as a physical building, but as the people that comprise it. Holding church service in a variety of changing venues emphasises the importance of the body of believers as the ...
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Now sometimes, as Christians, one of the reasons we look forward to getting to heaven, is because we think that in heaven, we won’t have to work anymore. But guess what? I don’t know where we got that idea, but it’s not biblical. ...
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