Today’s guest post comes to us from Daniel Fusco for PreachingToday.com.
We asked a younger preacher (Daniel Fusco) and a veteran preacher of almost 25 years (Matt Woodley, Editor of PreachingToday.com) to weigh in on the four basics of every good sermon. Think of them as four simple, routine, diagnostic questions that will help you prepare every sermon. It’s like going to the doctor’s office for a routine checkup. They almost always ask the same set of questions: What’s your weight? What’s your temperature? What’s your blood pressure? What meds are you currently taking? It’s basic stuff, but it provides the baseline for the rest of your checkup. In the same way, these four questions provide the baseline for everything else in your sermon.
So here are the four basic, routine, diagnostic questions we asked Fusco and Woodley to address:
- What does the text say?
- What does the text mean today?
- How is the Holy Spirit leading us through this text?
- Where is Jesus in this text?
Click here to read the full article.
Your partner in ministry,
Nelson
Share This Post