This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr.

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In this episode, I want to talk to you about the elements of a sermon.

The elements of a sermon.

What should go into a sermon? Before we get there, let's step back for a moment and ask

another question, a preliminary question, a bigger question. What is a sermon? I would suggest that a sermon

is the declaration of a biblical message, the declaration of a

biblical message. I'm sure you'll find more formal and frankly better definitions of a sermon than that. But I believe this is the essence of a sermon. It is the

declaration of a biblical message. Note the key terms that I'm using there. First of all,

it is a declared thing. A sermon is not your manuscript. In fact, I have several books by two professor friends who published

several works of sermons together in which they refuse to call those sermons sermons. They would call

those chapters sermon transcripts because they

believed that the manuscripts were not the sermons themselves the sermon is a spoken thing that

happens in a corporate worship assembly i agree with. A sermon is a declared thing. And I'm using

the word declared, not just to contrast it. Not just to contrast it with the written word,

a manuscript, what you've written down. I'm contrasting with that word declared, I'm

contrasting that with dialogue. This is not a discussion. It is a declaration. Now, I grew up in,

and I am a part of a church culture where the congregation is prone to talk back to the preacher.

I'm not talking about the affirmation of truth by saying amen on the part of the congregation.

I mean that the sermon is not a chat.

It's not a conversation.

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