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Questions and Answers

By

Sherman Haywood Cox II Soul Preaching



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Supercharge Your Sermons: "Steps to a Supercharged Sermons"

Foreword

Hello. I have had a few important questions that I felt needed some elucidation. In this lesson we will do a lesson a little differently. Most of our lessons have a text component and audio mp3. We then have a small video component. However, in this lesson, the video is the primary component. Please look at the video. We have a short video and the audio is ripped from the video. Once we complete the primary early lessons, most of our lessons will transition to this format. Please note, we have changed lesson #4 from Experiential Exegesis to this questions and answer format. Next week we will have the experiential exegesis lesson as we continue working through the Supercharge Your Sermons System.

P.S. ? Thank you for your questions...Let's get on to answering some of them!!

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Question #1: Regarding biblical hermeneutics, you make a statement, "The preaching in the African-American tradition comes to the Bible asking particular questions. Are these questions concerns merely of the Black Church or the universal church?

Please note that the African American tradition is not about who you are preaching TO but where you are preaching FROM. You are preaching to whoever will listen which will include red, yellow, black, and white, all are precious in God's sight.

Now keep in mind that you will connect better with the poor and the outcasts of all ethnic traditions, but you will connect with all ethnic traditions. So in one sense it is universal. When I preach to cultures other than African American, I use the same principles that I teach in this course.

Question #2: What are the basic questions that must be asked every time when one will exegesis the scriptural text? I realized there may be more questions depending on the text being read/studied. However, are there basis questions that must be asked by any one regardless of the text?

Lesson #5 will describe some questions to ask. But I would encourage you to download the free ebook You Can Preach: 7 Steps to an Effective Sermon to find some questions. Again, please note that this was an overview lesson. You will go through a few examples of actual exegesis of the text before the 6 months course is over.

Question #3: You have stated, "The black preaching mindset, however, asks different questions" Since the Gospel is universal, why are we as a black people unique? I realized our experience from slavery has taken its toll on us; but what makes us unique as a people? What would make us have different questions that others in this Universal church would not ask? At the same time, what questions should we from the pulpit raise that will bring us together and in harmony with the whole Body of Jesus Christ?

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Please note again...I am talking about were we are preaching FROM and not who we are preaching TO. Let me ask you a question...The negro spirituals...They are steeped in the black tradition...but they are beneficial and useful to all...That is what I am talking about.

Please note that when you look at the text from the angle of one who has been oppressed...you help folks who have been oppressed. What are the different questions?

Well if you have not been oppressed...you are in a position that will push you to ask different questions than other folks...But their questions that they ask are helpful and important as well.

We need all the traditions to benefit the full body of Christ. But you don't benefit the body of Christ by ignoring the insight that your past and your heritage has given to you. Our Caucasian brothers and sisters help us when they use their particular insights that their heritage has given to them.

Question #4: Can you please explain in more depth, "What is the Full Counsel of God"? Are you saying, the Full Counsel of God deals with themes of humanity? Please share indepth wth me...

The full counsel of God includes all of the themes that God has put in the word...this would include both the spiritual benefits of salvation...and the physical

benefits....It would include themes such as:

? What does God have to say about how I should treat others? ? What does God have to say about my body and how I should treat it? ? What does God have to say about hope and how to live in a hopeless situa-

tion? ? What does God have to say about how I should live in my finances? ? What does God have to say about destiny and heaven? ? What does God have to say about salvation and how I can get it? ? What does God have to say to those who are about to lose their house?

and so on...

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My only point is that you need to address all of that and more...and not just one thing. What has Jesus done for me? How does that make me live?

Question #5: You deal with telling stories in the sermon to be more effective... I know there are illustrations available for sermons or any event. Can you recommend books or websites that has stories to aid in sermon delivery? Are there courses available that will teach one how to tell stories? I don't want to return to school for storytelling.... How can I learn?

I don't even know of such a program. But you definitely don't need to return to school. I would encourage you to find important stories to you. Stories from your

past. As you tell those stories that you are invested in, you will become a better storyteller naturally.

I don't think you need to return to school...Just practice...I don't necessarily think

I am a great storyteller...but just tell the stories that are important to you...then tell the stories of the Bible as someone who is invested in it...

Question #6: Please elborate on the statement, "you are not ready to preach a text till you understand the story." What is it about the text that I must understand???

The story of the text. You should know how and why it came into being. Who is writing it and to whom was it written. What was going on while the biblical material was written and so on...

Question #7: Should a sermon have one main story or a story for each point shared with the people? How can I be careful and not go overboard in storytelling? How do you reinforce the message/point that you are conveying so it is not forgotten? I do not want people to remember the story more then the message. How can I do this?

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Very good question...you get to the core of the story...make sure that you attach the point of the message to the story strongly....Your story must be relevant, and have the point of your message tied into it strongly. You see you can tell the same story accurately, but emphasize different things based on your point. Like the way the Gospel writers emphasize and tell different things based on their different perspectives....

You can go overboard...but as far as whether a story for each point or one story...you can do it either way....

Question #8: What other methods, other then storytelling is available or can be utilized to aid in sermon delivery?

Your points need to be illustrated in some way. Storytelling is a common way. But you can use hymns or gospel songs or even other scriptures to illustrate the ideas.

Question #9: If you spend 30 to 45 minutes delivering a sermon, and only the final point will be remembered, or only the last 8 to 10 minutes is remembered would you say, one has failed in preaching and/or sermonic delivery, when you want the whole to be remembered?

That is why you must emphasize and reaffirm the whole sermon in your last minutes. If you want the whole remembered then you must reaffirm and make clear the point throughout the sermon, but especially in the conclusion. If you don't reaffirm the main point in the conclusion...then all that will be remembered is the conclusion....

Have you failed if folks don't remember the whole sermon...perhaps...but the easiest way for the folks to remember the whole sermon is to bring in the last point the whole of the sermon.

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Question #10: Please elaborate more on, "people should feel the truth of the Gospel and they just celebrate it through it through their emotions."

If you have done your job well...then the people will understand the truth in their mind....But more than that they will understand and "feel" the truth in their emotions. In other words...if you understand the gospel in your head...and you understand how good it is...then you can't help but celebrate.

I am saying that the people must understand it...and that understanding will give you celebration....

This Week's Assignments

1. Please Read the Questions and Answers in this lesson. 2. Please Answer the Question: "Should I ignore my ethnic tradition if I am

going to address the universal church? 3. Please Answer the Question: "Why is celebration important for sermons? 4. This next week, Please attempt to address a part of the counsel of God that

you do not normally address.

God Bless and Keep on Preaching,

Sherman Haywood Cox II

Sherman Haywood Cox II Publisher, Supercharge Your Sermons

Coming Up Next ...

Lesson #5: "Quick Start: Experiential Exegesis " This lesson is perhaps the most important one in the series. We will take you step by step through the process of a real experiential exegesis. You need to read and study this lesson to push your sermons forward. What happens when you take the black preaching mindset and apply it to bible exegesis?

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