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How to Prepare an Expository Sermon

BY

HAROLD E. KNOTT, M.A.(Harv.), D.D.

Professor of Homiletics, Eugene Bible University Eugene, Oregon

THE STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO

Copyrighted, 1930 The Standard Publishing Company

To the students of my class in expository preaching, through whose help and co-operation many of the principles here given were worked out and tested, this hook is affectionately dedicated.

Sympathetically undertaken, the study of the Bible becomes an absorbing passion which will find its perfect satisfaction only when "we see no longer through a glass darkly, but face to face." The glory of expository preaching is that it awakens an enthusiasm for the Word, and stirs men to that personal exploration of the inspired message which will be worth more to them spiritually than all the sermons they will hear.

NICHOLS.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE

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CHAPTER I.

THE VALUE OF EXPOSITORY PREACHING ........................ 11 1. Definition of an expository sermon. 2. Views of authorities on the subject. 3. Value of the expository method:

(a)To preacher. (b) To hearer. 4. Objection to expository sermons: (a) Impression that expository sermons are dry. (b) Misunderstanding of expository sermons. (c) Idea that the Bible is not modern. (d) Difficulty of preparation.

CHAPTER II.

THE SERMON OUTLINE ................................................. 23 1. Essential parts to a sermon outline.

(a) Discussion of various models.

(b) Illustration of type followed in book. 2. Difference between expository outline and other types

of sermons. (a) Expository sermons usually use more Scripture as

a basis. (b) The expository method aims to develop the

sermon from the Scripture. 3. Phases of the expository outline needing special

attention. (a) Securing contact with audience. (b) Making a vital application.

CHAPTER III.

THE SCRIPTURE .......................................................... 31 1. Variation, by the expository method, in the use of

Scripture. 5

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