How to Prepare – Editing the Sermon
Submitted by Sherman Haywood Cox II on September 1, 2008 – 4:46 am2 Comments
When you are preparing for preaching, one must edit the sermon. One must take a very close look at the sermon and rewrite it. Henry Mitchell has written a very important article on this very subject that you can find in Best Advice for Preaching. I would encourage all new preachers to get this book.
Henry Mitchell provides some things that the preacher should refine and revise in the editing process. These are:
- Grammar and Consistency – Here correct the grammatical problems
- Sentence Structure – Simplify
- Paragraph Structure – Shorten, provide good topic sentence, and good transitions.
- Words – Choose the word you want, use clear words and limit adjectives and adverbs.
- Particularity – Get out of the theoretical clouds and preach in particulars with concrete details.
- Pronunciation – Figure out how you will pronounce the words in the sermon. Correctly pronouncing a Biblical city or personality really helps your credibility.
When you edit your sermons, think about these aspects as suggested by Henry Mitchell.
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Thanks for posting this article. It somehow enforced my understanding of my own style of writing sermons. And also make me more aware especially in the pronunciation department.