#157 | How to State Your Sermon Online
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, H.B. gives several tips for stating the points, headings, or movements of the main body of your sermon. Effective sermons have clear structure. The structure of the sermon does not have to be explicit. But a good sermon outline benefits both the preacher and the hearer.
How should you state your sermon outline?
- Use simple statements.
- Use clear statements.
- Use biblical statements.
- Use provable statements.
- Use complete statements.
- Use distinct statements.
- Use parallel statements.
- Use present-tense statements.
- Use action statements.
- Use memorable statements.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:23.5 | Good day and better. Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about how to state your outline. |
| 0:32.1 | How to state your outline. |
| 0:35.2 | The assumption is that in some manner, as you are preaching, you state the main |
| 0:44.7 | ideas, the headings, the movements, the points, the structure in some explicit way over the course of the message. |
| 0:57.0 | That's the assumption I'm working from, and I want to talk to you about how to do that effectively. |
| 1:04.0 | But let me, before I get there, just introduce this subject with a couple um, I think if the sermon doesn't have |
| 1:14.1 | much structure, then that sermon is, is basically scattered remarks about a topic, a theme, |
| 1:27.2 | or a text. What theme, or a text. |
| 1:29.0 | What makes a sermon a message and not really just scattered remarks is that there is purpose, |
| 1:39.0 | there is unity, and there is movement. |
| 1:43.1 | There is some sense of structure in this message that moves it |
| 1:49.3 | forward to a logical conclusion. Sure, you may be thinking, I know some good preachers |
| 1:55.5 | who don't seem to have much structure in their sermons. And I do too. |
| 2:01.6 | I could do a whole podcast episode of just preachers I've heard |
| 2:05.4 | who do not have any discernible structure in their preaching, |
| 2:11.4 | but are yet dynamic preachers. |
| 2:14.7 | But that list of guys that I could name for you are I think exceptions rather than |
| 2:22.2 | the norm I think um those are jazz artists okay um you you want to you want to learn the uh keys and the |
| 2:33.5 | chords and the scales you want to learn the keys and the chords and the scales. |
| 2:35.0 | You want to master the basics of sermon preparation and delivery. |
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