Monday, May 9, 2011

Reversable sermons

Every sermon should be inspired by and applicable to the bible passage that it is drawn from and able to be distilled down to an understandable statement.

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Ideally, any sermon should be reverse engineer-able.

Basically, if you begin with the end-point, you should be able to accuartely navigate back to the start.

If you had the main point of a sermon and took it to someone who knew the bible really well, they should be able to predict the passage that it was drawn from.

This week, my challenge is to do that for the first two chapters of the book of Nehemiah...

1 comment:

nikigobble said...

you know, i really really agree with this, thus thought i should say it