TAPED EXERCISE ON SERMON PLANS



RECORDED EXERCISE ON SERMON PLANS

Exercise 2

To use this exercise do the following. (1) Print a copy of Exercise 2 with the blanks—what you are look at now. (2) Close the document you have just printed and bring up the other copy of the exercise which has the blanks completed—Exercise 2 on Sermon Plans with Answers. (3) Have a Bible and your Preaching: Man and Method book ready to use as suggested. (4) Start the recording available on the Exercise 2 with Answers document. (5) Follow instructions on the recording. (6) As you fill in answers, refer to the computer screen where you can see the exercise with the blanks completed to see if you answered correctly. You will learn more by listening to the recording, writing in the blanks, and then looking to see if you did it properly than by just reading the lesson with the blanks already filled in. You can stop the recording at anytime if you think you need more time to answer or compare answers or wish to break up your session into parts. It would take an hour and a half, at least, to do the whole exercise. (7) When your answers to this exercise are complete, you should take the completed exercise, along with other materials, to Dr. North. He will check these materials to see if you are ready to take the written examination on homiletics.

You should have read Chapter 6 before you do this exercise. This is to serve as a review and practice session over the content of Chapter 6. While some of this is very simple, it lays an important basic foundation for those who may still need it.

1. From the days of Aristotle and Cicero, speech teachers have insisted that a good speech is well ______________ This principle corresponds to the operation of the _________ which comprehends and remembers best that which has a recognizable structure.

2. To be effective, sermons, likewise, must have a __________________ on which to put the flesh of the sermon. And there are certain ___________ which sermon organization can follow which can help a preacher both to ______________ and ____________________ his subject.

3. Before coming to the specific patterns, first let’s look at some preliminary matters.

a. The development of a sermon outline is the standard way to plan the organization of a sermon.

b. There is a difference between an outline and speaker’s notes.

Outline--

Notes-

c. There are standard patterns for analyzing a passage or a subject which a preacher can use in organizing a sermon. You must learn to use__________ of them before starting the advanced homiletics course.

d. The use of these patterns applies particularly to the ________ of the sermon.

e. There is a basic unit of _______________________ and __________________ that is a basic

building block of the sermon.

f. Sometimes a variation on this unit is ___________________ and _____________________.

g. The foundation building block for a sermon outline is made up of the ___________________

and the ____________ ______________

h. Then each main heading becomes a __________________which needs support.

i. Each _______________________ should be worded in a full __________________ and all equivalent headings should have ________________wording.

j. Look at pages 86-87 in the book. Look at the short outlines there.

k. Now, with the recording off, try writing a basic outline of your own. Write a subject sentence with main headings. Be sure it has the qualities we have described—full, complete sentences and parallel statements. You may pick any subject you wish.

4. Now we look at _________________. Think of them like a dress pattern to be laid over the theme— the cloth. One can use the same cloth and different patterns and come out with different styles of dresses. So with sermon patterns. There are two basic categories of sermon patterns: ________________based and_______________ based. Both are__________________ based when properly developed and both are useful for different purposes.

5. There are____ passage-based types:

a. Textual--

1. Based on only one or two ___________ of scripture

2. Uses the _____________ words of the passage for ________________ headings.

Here is a sample—write it down

Look at Ephesians 5:19 in your Bible. Make a textual sermon outline in brief form (subject sentence and main headings only.)

b Expository--I

1. Select a section of scripture that stands as a _________________

2. Find the essential _____________ the author develops in the passage.

3. Determine what the passage ______________ about the theme:

different ___________ of the theme

different ___________ of the theme

different _______________ of the theme

Here are two samples to write down:

Now develop one of your own from Luke 10:25-37

c. Expository--II—The same as type I except the theme chosen is a ________________

one from the [passage rather than the central one which the author would have seen.

Here is an example of this type.

Now you make an Expository II type from Acts 6:1-7 on principles of church management.

(Study expository preaching more by reading my article on expository preaching on my website at oc.edu/faculty/stafford.north. It is under “Articles.”

d. Explained/Exemplified/Applied—From a passage there emerges a theme or topic which can first be

_________________then ______________________by Bible examples, and then to

present day situations.

Here is a sample of this type:

Now you make a sample of this type from some sentence of the Bible that presents a principle. (Use the back of this sheet.)

5. Now here is a sample. Note what type it is and mark what you believe are some mistakes in the outline form.

Purpose: To inform the audience of the nature of “tongue speaking.”

Introduction:

A. Many today claim to speak in tongues.

B. The gift they claim is that of “ecstatic utterance”—or languages of ecstasy rather than speaking in actual known languages.

C. The only description of “tongue speaking’ actually occurring in the scriptures is Acts 2:1-13.

Subject Sentence: Let us examine the case of tongue speaking in Acts 2 to learn what we can from this passage about the nature of this gift.

Body:

I. Tongue-speaking Was a Gift Bestowed by the Holy Spirit.

A. “The Spirit gave them utterance”—Acts 2:4

B. “Ye shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you”—Acts 1:8

C. “And when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues and prophesied—Acts 19:6

II. Tongue-speaking Was Speaking in Real Languages.

A. The word for “tongue” is the word for “language.

B. “Every man heard them speaking in his own language”—Acts 2:6

C. The nations whose languages were used are listed, thus telling us the languages the apostles were speaking.

III. Those Who Spoke in Tongues Revealed the Mighty Works of God.

A. The message was useful.

IV. Tongue-speaking Was a Sign of God’s Approval of Those Who Spoke.

A. The people were all amazed and asked “What does this mean?”—Acts 2:12

B. I Cor. 14:22— “a sign to the unbelievers”

Conclusion:

A Tongue-speaking was an important activity in the early church.

B. “Where there be tongues, they shall cease”—I Cor. 13:8

C. What is offered as “tongue speaking” today is not the same as what happened in Acts 2.

The above sermon outline fits what type we have studied? ________________________ .

6. There are ten subject-based types of sermons. Look at the book starting on page 101 while we review these.

7. Four other aspects of organization are: transition, introductions, conclusions, and climax. Turn to page 110 in the book.

Continue to read the book and work with this material until you can do the following:

1. List the four passage-based and ten subject-based sermon types from memory

2. Identify which pattern a sermon is that you have heard or read.

3. Prepare sermon outlines after each of the categories with carefully constructed subject sentences and main headings, with parallel structure and good wording. You must practice doing this and not just be satisfied with the ability to recognize the patterns.

4. Improve on sermon outlines you or others have made.

5. Refer to the general requirements for leveling in homiletics to see details of how you can meet the leveling requirement in this area.

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