Improving Storytelling in Preaching Step 3 - Determine the Purpose

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Submitted by shermancox on Fri, 2008-01-11 07:17.

How Sermonic Purpose Guides the Exegesis.

The third step in Martha Simmons and Henry Mitchell's method for improving storytelling in preaching is the turning point towards putting together the sermon. Here you must determine the behavioral purpose of the sermon. You get this by asking yourself, What change in core belief or obedience is the Passage pushing the people to.

This step recognizes that the sermon must have a purpose. We are not preaching just to be preaching. Neither are we just telling stories for the sake of telling stories. There is a change in belief or practice that we are seeking in the people. For a list of core beliefs, I would encourage you to listen to my audio where I discuss Mitchell and Cooper-Lewter's book Soul Theology.

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