Seventh-day Adventists Rebuilding the Walls: Rebuilding People; Restoring Relationships; Inspiring Excellence. (Ephesians 4:1-13) JULY 13 FHM

Sun 12 January 2014 Introduction Lecture 9: How to Construct a Textual Sermon Lecture 10: How to Construct an Expository Sermon

How to Construct a Textual Sermon The Textual sermon… Draws its main divisions from the text. Draws its sub-divisions from elsewhere The subject is divided as the text indicates or permits by the scope of its material Derives from the text only a skeleton which is filled in any way that the preacher desires or that the subject requires.

How to Construct a Textual Sermon Method #1 – Analysis: i.e. taking apart Separating the parts of the text so as to note and examine them separately. The ideas, duties, arguments, classifications, conditions, doctrines, questions, or admonitions of the text are simply taken in the order that they occur in the text.

How to Construct a Textual Sermon Method #2 – Synthesis, i.e.: putting together Has to do with rearrangement of points, or the constructions of an outline from the points supplied by a text, but arranged to suit the purpose of the sermon or the pattern of the sermon composition without thought of the order of the points of the text. Many texts must of necessity be treated synthetically, because there is in them no ready order and arrangements of the points.

Seventh-day Adventists Rebuilding the Walls: Rebuilding People; Restoring Relationships; Inspiring Excellence. (Ephesians 4:1-13)