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A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures

A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures. KENTON C. ANDERSON Overview with Discussion Questions and Practical Exercises. chapter 3, option 3A. Third question:. How will you discern your message from the Bible?. How will you discern your message from the Bible?.

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A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures

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  1. A ComprehensiveIntroduction to Sermon Options and Structures KENTON C. ANDERSON Overview with Discussion Questions and Practical Exercises chapter 3, option 3A

  2. Third question: How will you discern your message from the Bible?

  3. How will you discern your message from the Bible? Deduction ... I will "begin with the Bible" because God is sovereign and we have to submit to what he has to say.

  4. practical exercise 3Levels ofAuthority Ideas discerned from the text have different levels of authority. That is to say, some propositions derive less directly from the Bible than others. Direct biblical authority describes ideas that exactly correspond to the teaching of the text. The sermon preaches what the Bible teaches. Indirect biblical authority describes ideas that are only inferred from the text. Casual biblical authority describes ideas that are only vaguely suggested by the text. Corrupted biblical authority describes ideas that twist the meaning of the text into something it never intended.

  5. (continued) practical exercise 3Levels ofAuthority Choose three sermons, including one you have preached, and determine the key ideas being proclaimed. What level of biblical authority do these ideas have? Remember that an idea does not need to have direct biblical authority to be legitimate. Nevertheless, the closer a sermon adheres to the intended meaning of the text, the more authority the sermon will convey. H. C. Brown, A Quest for Reformation in Preaching (Nashville: Broadman, 1968), 36–37.

  6. discussion question 8Christ-ian Preaching Must every sermon focus on Jesus Christ? Is it appropriate to preach without mentioning the gospel if the text itself does not allude to it? If so, what would make the sermon explicitly Christian?

  7. A ComprehensiveIntroduction to Sermon Options and Structures KENTON C. ANDERSON

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