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Expository Preaching (Step Three: Intensive Study)
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Paul Jang
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2008-03-24 13:11:39, hit : 3,367 |
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Expository Preaching (Step Three: Intensive Study)
(3) Step Three: Intensive Study
Preacher should determine the preaching text and seat it in his mind from which he has received before he read the Scripture for the purpose of looking for the text of his sermon. He should set the limits of the text, settle the wording of the text, and seat the text in his mind.
Preacher should place the preaching portion in its context. There are some contexts related to the author and the people. In particular, there are several examples such as immediate context, for examples, Matthew 16:28 and Philippians 2:5-11: "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."(Mat 16:28), and "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father"(Phil. 2:5-11).
It may be placed with the book as a whole, for example, Phillipiams 1:1-4:23. And preacher may place other books by same author, and historical,cultural, social context in and out the Bilbe as a whole. Preacher should study the meaning of the crucial words in the passage. Especially, he should study the meaning of the words which are tranlated differently in various version, the words which are critical to the meaning of the passage, and the words which are unknown or obscure to him. Preacher should analyze the grammar of the passage.
In particular, he should determine the subject and main verb of each sentence, the main clauses, the subordinate clauses and phrases, how they function. He also should determine the tense of the verbs and the significance thereof. Preacher should bombard the text with the observational questions--who? what? where? when? why? how? These are necessary factors in writing the sermon. If there are no these factors in the sermon, the people who were listening to the sermon could understand nothing about the sermon. Therefore these are very important. Preacher should study any unclear geograph- ical, historical, cultural or philosophical allusions in the text.
Because preacher must study these fields in order to exactly understand the text. Preacher should seek to determine how the text being studied relates to the book's purpose. The relevancy of the the text to the book's purpose is very important. Preacher may list the main truths taught in the passage. It also helps to make up of the reflective expository type of sermon, and to memorize in his mind.
Preacher may attempt to formulate a statement of the theme of the pasage. In the sentence, what is the main thing the whole thing is saying? Preacher may formulate an outline of the passage. with doing this he is easy to memorize it, and to make up of the sentence of the sermon. Now preacher may consult several good commemtaries and make a note of any insights they provide which you have missed.
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Introduction
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