WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:05.950 So I just wanted to say that I was I've actually really impressed with everybody 00:08.390 --> 00:12.750 Their extemporaneous preaching I felt like people did a pretty good job and 00:13.450 --> 00:19.470 I feel like even though you're not very prepared. You don't know what's gonna happen and it's kind of 00:20.630 --> 00:22.730 It's unsettling of an experience 00:22.730 --> 00:27.190 Hopefully that that gives you a little bit of confidence to know that even when you have very little 00:27.710 --> 00:33.790 Time or prep. There's still a lot of truth. It's in your heart and you can let that come out in your sermon 00:34.650 --> 00:40.230 And so this this morning. I'm gonna be talking about writing a sermon and I already 00:40.810 --> 00:43.770 Kind of blended that idea a little bit with last night 00:43.770 --> 00:48.570 But I want to take what we talked about last night and then I want to make it practical 00:48.570 --> 00:56.570 so like like literally writing the sermon and kind of what my sermon notes will look like often in 00:56.570 --> 01:01.990 Preaching and I just found especially, you know yesterday a couple people were using their phones and stuff 01:01.990 --> 01:07.410 So for this lesson, I would encourage you if you don't already have a pant like a pad a notepad or something 01:07.410 --> 01:13.790 Get a piece of paper because what I want us to do is write a physical sermon and I want to just kind of 01:14.830 --> 01:16.770 Do this exercise where I 01:17.710 --> 01:20.650 Kind of want you to write the sermon the way that I would write it 01:21.590 --> 01:25.750 Physically and again learn that this is not the only way to write a sermon 01:25.750 --> 01:28.310 I just want to give you a way to write a sermon now 01:28.310 --> 01:31.470 I personally write sermons in different formats 01:31.470 --> 01:37.470 So I don't always write a sermon the same way sometimes I type up a sermon and I'll have like a notes that I made on a computer 01:38.270 --> 01:42.810 sometimes a lot a lot of my sermons though are just simply a spiral notebook and 01:43.510 --> 01:45.570 I just I just have them like 01:46.270 --> 01:52.610 Typically one page two pages at most is what a lot of my sermons are and I just found this to be very helpful for me and 01:53.310 --> 01:56.430 I think that it helps me preach a little bit better 01:56.430 --> 01:59.490 And so I'm just going to kind of go through that practically speaking 01:59.490 --> 02:05.250 So if you don't have a piece of paper, you feel free to come down here and get one or if you have a notepad or something 02:05.690 --> 02:06.730 you know as a 02:07.490 --> 02:11.670 If you're some if you're someone that's preaching on a regular basis, I would even encourage you 02:11.670 --> 02:19.070 You know get it go to Walmart for one dollar you can get one of these and you can have like you know 02:19.970 --> 02:25.530 50 a hundred sermons or something like that in this and and also like you could potentially 02:26.090 --> 02:31.610 What's good about some this method is you think about it like hey whenever I'm inspired to the sermon 02:31.610 --> 02:34.930 I'll write my outline and I may not get a chance to preach that right now 02:34.930 --> 02:38.610 but but I have it available and so 02:39.530 --> 02:44.330 You know, I might write five sermons so like sometimes a you know when I get a chance 02:44.330 --> 02:47.370 You know, especially if on a plane and I'm on a plane for like three or four hours 02:47.370 --> 02:54.050 I'll sometimes write like four or five sermons because I just have the opportunity. There's no kids and life is busy, right? 02:54.830 --> 02:57.710 But I may not preach that sermon for a long time from now 02:59.690 --> 03:02.850 also, I was in an old IV church a long time ago and 03:03.690 --> 03:09.210 I kind of believed in the same philosophy the pastor innocent preaches of just like there's a prepared place for a person 03:09.610 --> 03:14.270 And so I ended up writing a sermon even though I had no opportunities to preach. I was not 03:14.970 --> 03:17.810 Offered to preach. There was no opportunities to preach at all 03:17.810 --> 03:20.350 But I had a sermon ready and then I remember just one day 03:21.030 --> 03:24.770 Like it was in the morning sermon our pastor finished this sermon 03:24.770 --> 03:26.310 He just goes like all right tonight 03:26.310 --> 03:31.790 We're just gonna hear a sermon from Jonathan Shelley and I was just like what the heck like I was like 03:31.790 --> 03:37.750 I didn't even know like he was gonna ask me that we had never talked about that. It was it was like completely random 03:38.510 --> 03:45.410 But again like to me, that's an answer to like hey if you really prepare a sermon and you're ready to go 03:46.470 --> 03:48.430 when I was at faithful word and 03:49.750 --> 03:53.590 I'd been here for a little while. I was preaching at our North Church plant, you know regularly 03:53.590 --> 03:59.710 but I just remember we go to the church picnic and it's like in the afternoon and someone walks with me like 03:59.710 --> 04:03.810 So what are you preaching tomorrow? And I'm like, what are you talking about and they're like, yeah, you're preaching tomorrow 04:03.810 --> 04:06.490 I'm like, no, I'm not you're still you know, you're you're messing with me 04:06.490 --> 04:10.950 He's like no you're preaching and so then I'm like what the heck so I go find Tyler Baker and he's like 04:10.950 --> 04:15.410 Oh, yeah, pastors is not feeling good and he asked me to preach and I'm not feeling good 04:15.410 --> 04:17.910 So you're supposed to preach and I forgot to tell you 04:18.650 --> 04:22.210 And I'm just like wow what a what a cool dude, right? 04:23.970 --> 04:25.970 Just that's an inconvenient detail, right? 04:26.170 --> 04:28.790 I think he almost wanted me to show up Sunday morning 04:29.470 --> 04:33.710 And and be and like find out like a few minutes before or something like that 04:34.290 --> 04:36.410 So that was real nice of him to be like that 04:36.410 --> 04:43.170 But you know again, you never know when you might be called upon and so, you know, I think you know 04:43.830 --> 04:47.350 It's fine to write some sermons and have them ready have them your back pocket 04:47.350 --> 04:49.910 You know if you have like I said if you have a spiral notebook or whatever 04:49.910 --> 04:56.190 You could have a handful of sermons that are ready to go if you ever get that opportunity at your your parents old 04:56.190 --> 05:03.730 IP church or at a nursing home or your pastor sick or you're on the mission field or whatever and you just kind of have that 05:04.270 --> 05:09.850 Available to lean on and and for me like most of my sermons. I you know, just have an outline 05:10.470 --> 05:16.610 And I find that an outline is sufficient. It's good enough and and really it'll help you get better at preaching 05:16.610 --> 05:21.290 If you kind of go that format if you're really trying to write out your sermons word for word 05:21.290 --> 05:24.790 I think you're gonna really struggle and you're gonna struggle in your delivery 05:24.790 --> 05:25.870 You're gonna struggle 05:27.050 --> 05:28.810 Preaching something from the heart 05:29.590 --> 05:31.790 We're not really delivering speeches 05:32.310 --> 05:40.930 We're delivering sermons and to me the difference is a speech is a well-crafted thought-out word for word 05:40.930 --> 05:43.290 monologue whereas a sermon 05:44.110 --> 05:48.870 Hopefully would be more of an outline that's then gonna come from the heart and you're gonna allow 05:49.390 --> 05:54.670 Yourself to make good applications a lot of my preaching that I I would say that I'm 05:54.670 --> 05:57.930 Like if I look back and I say wow that was a good thing that I said there 05:57.930 --> 06:02.330 I like what I said there. I like how this came out. It's something I did not prepare for at all 06:02.750 --> 06:07.910 It's just it's just a being sensitive to allowing the Holy Spirit to bring things to your remembrance and 06:08.550 --> 06:11.730 Making good applications because you just kind of know the material well 06:11.730 --> 06:16.930 And so what I ended up realizing is that I would have these meticulous notes 06:16.930 --> 06:23.090 And then I'm not preaching my notes and then I'm like why the heck am I spending all this time preparing all this material that I never 06:23.090 --> 06:24.810 Preach so then I'm like, okay 06:24.810 --> 06:30.930 I'm gonna spend my time and effort energy on the outline and then allow myself to you know be more free-flowing 06:31.370 --> 06:32.810 Because I mean you guys did pretty good 06:32.810 --> 06:39.110 I mean and that was like almost no prep in comparison to like actually having an outline that you feel confident in 06:39.110 --> 06:40.070 delivering so 06:40.890 --> 06:47.950 Like I said last night I went through these kind of these kind of points and and I just wanted to clarify a few things too 06:47.950 --> 06:51.150 To help us, you know when we talked about our one great truth 06:52.610 --> 06:57.050 It's not necessarily only just like this is a verse in the Bible 06:57.550 --> 07:01.790 It's it's kind of like what is the goal as well? So like when I gave my example 07:02.830 --> 07:07.630 Men need to have short hair or men should have short hair. That's not a verse in the Bible 07:07.630 --> 07:13.290 That's not like a verbatim thing that I'm extracting from the text. What am I what am I trying to do? 07:13.390 --> 07:15.470 That's the goal of the sermon, okay? 07:16.010 --> 07:20.970 And I'm not saying the title has to always be exactly verbatim the goal 07:20.970 --> 07:27.170 But it's probably should be in mind of the goal and you know keeping the goal in mind is going to help you 07:27.170 --> 07:32.630 Write good sermons. It's going to help you have good notes because you're trying to achieve a particular goal 07:33.290 --> 07:38.690 Yesterday we did a lot of what I would call brain storming. So sometimes, you know when I'm writing a sermon 07:39.970 --> 07:40.670 You know 07:41.270 --> 07:46.010 It's kind of the same as picking a topic and writing something because I'm I'm kind of doing both at the same time 07:46.010 --> 07:49.710 I'm kind of like writing it in my mind as I'm picking the topic 07:49.710 --> 07:56.070 So then I established something but sometimes my notes are chaotic and so then what I end up doing is 07:56.070 --> 08:00.150 I'll just rewrite the outline after my brainstorming session 08:00.150 --> 08:05.270 I'll look at what I brainstormed of hey, this was kind of that was cut this is what I was aimed for 08:06.030 --> 08:13.230 These these are the verses that I found here's some balance and these points and then I reanalyze I say, okay 08:13.850 --> 08:17.990 I did the brainstorming session. I feel like I have something here now 08:17.990 --> 08:25.710 Let's write it and then the writing is going to be what did I actually like what am I really trying to achieve and 08:25.710 --> 08:29.750 Then that's where I would go back to the top. Okay. Here's my title and then here's the clear verse 08:29.750 --> 08:33.490 Here's the verse that I like the most that I'm going to start with, you know, we talked about hell yesterday 08:34.170 --> 08:37.570 We had all kinds of different verses you may have said this is the verse 08:37.570 --> 08:39.930 I want to start with but then after kind of your brainstorming session 08:39.930 --> 08:40.410 You're like no 08:40.410 --> 08:46.990 I kind of like this verse a little bit more and so that I'm going to put that as my starting point in a five-minute sermon 08:47.550 --> 08:52.610 I think you probably would do yourself a disservice to not just almost start with your clear verse 08:53.290 --> 08:57.270 In a longer sermon you could maybe have a slight buildup, right? 08:57.270 --> 09:01.430 I'm not saying that you'd have to literally start with your clear verse 09:01.430 --> 09:07.490 Maybe you want to have a little bit of a verse that gives context to then your clear verse 09:07.490 --> 09:10.390 but you probably want to get to that clear verse very quickly and 09:11.070 --> 09:14.850 And and and succinctly so that people are going to have that in their mind 09:14.850 --> 09:16.730 So often when I'm writing my notes 09:16.730 --> 09:22.150 I'm really just thinking about the order of how I want to go through my sermon and then building my outline 09:22.150 --> 09:25.150 based on that of course the balance is 09:25.810 --> 09:29.510 The idea of is there something that I'm communicating is 09:30.390 --> 09:36.090 There a truth or a goal that I'm communicating that I need to balance with other truths in the Bible 09:36.090 --> 09:43.330 other things that are true in the Bible that I'm making sure that I'm not gonna say something that's inaccurate or 09:43.330 --> 09:47.570 That could be argued against you know, I'm trying to convince the gain sayer 09:48.170 --> 09:53.450 And then lastly is the point or points that I'm gonna have in my sermon you could technically have one point 09:54.010 --> 09:58.910 That's fine. There's many sermons. I've heard a pastor Anderson that are great sermons, and it's just one point 09:58.910 --> 10:02.270 It's just that he just he doesn't he's not going point one point two 10:02.270 --> 10:05.950 it's just he's just hammering that one truth throughout the entire sermon and 10:05.950 --> 10:10.030 That's still a very effective way to preach the Bible. You don't have to have three points 10:10.030 --> 10:13.410 You don't have to have two. You don't have to have five, but you should at least have one 10:13.410 --> 10:17.510 Okay, so we have hey a point for the sermon 10:17.510 --> 10:22.570 Which would probably just match the goal or the clear verse that you're articulating. So 10:23.970 --> 10:25.010 again in 10:25.010 --> 10:26.630 Thinking about my truth 10:27.270 --> 10:32.850 Having the goal is really helpful. So some of the all sermon ideas yesterday while y'all did really be good 10:32.850 --> 10:37.470 It may not have been a clear goal and what I mean by that is you know 10:37.470 --> 10:40.650 if you're seeing if you're teaching a sermon like Jesus is God or 10:42.750 --> 10:46.710 You're teaching on the Trinity or you're teaching just some Bible truth 10:46.710 --> 10:51.510 Sometimes you also I want to ask like the question like why are you teaching that like what? 10:51.510 --> 10:57.930 What are you hoping to achieve? It could just be you just want people to have a good firm grasp on that doctrine 10:57.930 --> 11:04.250 And that's okay, but if you want people to have a firm grasp on that doctrine then when I'm writing my sermon 11:04.250 --> 11:07.930 I'm probably just gonna do a lot of Bible, right? 11:08.390 --> 11:12.690 I'm gonna I'm just you're gonna do tons of Bible and I'm gonna I'm gonna spend some time 11:12.690 --> 11:16.770 Trying to dispel anybody attacking that doctrine 11:16.770 --> 11:21.590 I'm gonna go to the problematic passages, and I'm gonna try and achieve like 11:22.730 --> 11:28.970 An attempt to answer them well and give a good answer to why people are struggling with that doctrine 11:28.970 --> 11:34.610 But I might be treat the teaching, you know a doctrine on Jesus God because 11:35.270 --> 11:36.410 I've noticed 11:36.410 --> 11:42.410 There's an influence that's trying to teach get away from this and so then I'm not gonna 11:42.410 --> 11:44.890 Spend all my time on 11:45.350 --> 11:53.350 Counterpoints I'm gonna focus on the issue or I'm gonna focus on this group or you know again the goal helps you write the sermon 11:53.350 --> 11:55.650 So again if you have no goal 11:56.390 --> 12:00.790 Sometimes the sermon is just feel awkward or they feel like we don't know we're going and you don't know we're going and then 12:00.790 --> 12:05.290 You don't know how to land the plane and again that he said he wants a crash course landing 12:05.290 --> 12:11.310 Okay, I get it and and I think that's true. You want to you want to end your sermon powerfully 12:11.310 --> 12:14.610 I don't think that it has to be like you yell 12:14.610 --> 12:18.330 I don't think I'm I don't think it has to be like it has to be 12:19.010 --> 12:24.130 Exciting necessarily, but it should be powerful. So, you know, it could be a message 12:24.130 --> 12:29.470 It's still powerfully ending just with the truth that you have or the point that you're making 12:29.990 --> 12:37.130 Something that's gripping something that's communicating that message something to leave on a challenge or the title of your sermon 12:37.130 --> 12:44.390 Or just something that's concluding but again, you can't really end powerfully if you didn't have a goal 12:44.390 --> 12:50.350 You know having the goal will help you in the writing the sermon because I know where I'm headed 12:50.350 --> 12:55.130 And then I know when I got there and then I know how to end because there's the thing 12:55.130 --> 12:59.130 You don't you know, you don't want to be flight 93 where you don't know where you're gonna land 12:59.130 --> 13:01.590 okay, and 13:01.590 --> 13:05.270 You just land in a reclaim strip mine and no one finds any plane parts, you know 13:05.270 --> 13:08.770 It's just like you want to know like where I'm going 13:08.770 --> 13:14.710 What was I trying to achieve and then hopefully at some point in your sermon? You'll be like I feel like I've arrived 13:14.710 --> 13:20.030 I've gotten there. So I'm good with you know landing the plane ending the sermon 13:22.110 --> 13:27.410 Of course, I'm not perfect and in these ways either a lot of things that I'm saying to you or things that I myself would 13:27.410 --> 13:33.370 Critique about my preaching and things that I didn't like about my own preaching and things that I've tried to improve on myself 13:34.090 --> 13:40.730 These these are the kind of the nuts and bolts and it blends from picking a topic to writing the sermon 13:41.550 --> 13:46.190 Now I'm going to give you some examples of this and I technically 13:47.170 --> 13:50.550 You know, we've talked about expository preaching and topical preaching 13:53.170 --> 13:58.810 I'm gonna just take a quick second to give you a tip or like how I would do an expository sermon 13:58.810 --> 14:03.590 And then we're gonna focus on the topical and I want to end on that because I think that's the more applicable thing 14:03.590 --> 14:11.670 But in an expository sermon often what I will do if I have to preach a chapter of the Bible, okay, is 14:12.310 --> 14:17.950 I will first just read it because frankly speaking like the first time I read through a chapter 14:17.950 --> 14:21.770 I usually have nothing to say and I'm just kind of like I don't know what you know 14:21.770 --> 14:23.770 I'm just trying to figure out where we're at and 14:24.410 --> 14:27.670 I usually read the chapter multiple times over and over, okay 14:27.670 --> 14:32.930 Once I've once I've kind of gotten an idea of like what's the context of this chapter because to me 14:32.930 --> 14:35.050 I want to in my own mind 14:35.050 --> 14:38.490 Think like what's the biggest picture of this chapter? 14:39.210 --> 14:41.790 So that I have that in my mind the whole time 14:41.790 --> 14:46.790 I'm going through this chapter because I don't want to lose focus of the chapter 14:46.790 --> 14:53.610 I also if I'm going through a book I will have like a thought or a very quick phrase for each 14:53.770 --> 15:01.770 Chapter in my mind so then that way I can refresh myself and the congregation if you notice some of my expository preaching 15:01.770 --> 15:03.270 You'll notice I'm in chapter four or five 15:03.270 --> 15:06.770 I'll be like hey this was a chapter one said two three four 15:06.770 --> 15:14.110 So then we're all in the right mindset as we go through this particular chapter and it's just it's not only just for them 15:14.110 --> 15:17.550 It's for me because I don't want to get up and just start teaching all this stuff 15:17.550 --> 15:21.650 And it's like we just totally ignored the whole point of the book or the whole point of the chapter 15:21.650 --> 15:27.110 So kind of keeping you know that in mind once I kind of have that thought like let's say 15:27.110 --> 15:29.590 I'm preaching you know I preach Ephesians chapter four 15:30.650 --> 15:32.150 This week, okay 15:32.150 --> 15:36.190 So in my notepad I'll of course have like Ephesians four or something 15:36.190 --> 15:40.170 But what I what I might end up doing is I might even have like 15:40.170 --> 15:49.590 One two and three here and just like a quick thought of what chapter one was chapter two was and chapter three was 15:49.590 --> 15:52.150 So that I kind of have in my mind 15:52.150 --> 15:59.490 What you know what I'm gonna say about chapter number four and you know when it comes to chapters one two and three 15:59.490 --> 16:04.210 I also think they almost kind of just blend a little bit because they almost have like one big narrative 16:04.210 --> 16:09.690 That's emphasizing that the Gentiles are and they have multiple points like in chapter one 16:09.690 --> 16:10.990 It's like they're fellow heirs 16:10.990 --> 16:17.450 You know and they've been predestined then they're fellow citizens in chapter number two and number three that mystery has 16:17.450 --> 16:19.970 Been revealed that they are going to be 16:19.970 --> 16:26.250 Graphed in and so we're just we're just really emphasizing you know that they hey the Gentiles are predestined 16:29.510 --> 16:31.110 That they're fellow citizens 16:34.010 --> 16:37.330 They're not second-class citizens, they're not plan B 16:37.930 --> 16:42.150 Okay, they were always plan a because they were predestined they're fellow citizens 16:42.150 --> 16:45.210 Chapter number three that this mystery has been revealed 16:49.370 --> 16:56.570 So then when I get into chapter number four and let's just turn there for a moment and look at verse number one of Ephesians chapter number four 16:56.570 --> 17:04.280 It starts how I 17:04.280 --> 17:05.120 therefore 17:06.300 --> 17:12.980 You know you kind of I feel like you do almost a disservice if I'm starting a chapter with therefore and I don't even know 17:12.980 --> 17:14.340 Why we're saying therefore 17:15.540 --> 17:18.580 Okay, why why is this whole chapter makes sense? 17:18.580 --> 17:23.540 Because the the Gentiles are predestined fellow citizens and this mystery has been revealed that 17:24.240 --> 17:27.980 Therefore they're supposed to walk worthy of the vocation where with they were called 17:27.980 --> 17:33.420 So because they were predestined because they're fellow citizens because this mystery has been involved been revealed 17:33.420 --> 17:39.560 Then they have an obligation to what be good Christians be the true Israel of God 17:39.560 --> 17:43.480 You know do all of the things that are going to be listed in chapter number four 17:43.480 --> 17:45.760 And that's going to help me get through this so again 17:45.760 --> 17:51.400 If I'm preaching an expository sermon on a chapter I like to kind of do this 17:51.400 --> 17:54.940 Right and and kind of keep track keep the context 17:54.940 --> 18:01.460 This will help you to not start going off and doing weird things and saying weird things and missing the big picture 18:02.060 --> 18:06.300 Then chapter four if I'm writing my notes. I might say like okay 18:07.300 --> 18:13.440 What is chapter four is one word here like what am I what is chapter four about and 18:14.040 --> 18:20.320 You know my personal, you know view is that it's like we should be walking worthy of the vocation where we've been called 18:20.320 --> 18:23.260 Right, so we want to be worthy of our vocation 18:24.380 --> 18:36.020 Okay, and what I'm writing is what I'm saying like literally what I'm writing here 18:36.560 --> 18:40.800 Okay, now I haven't written very much, but I've written trigger words 18:41.940 --> 18:47.080 That will trigger my mind of what I would say right I don't need to write 18:47.980 --> 18:54.760 The Gentiles are predestined before the foundation of the world. They're not plan B. I can just write predestined 18:55.360 --> 18:57.040 Because then that's going to help me remember 18:57.040 --> 19:03.260 I already know that truth and I can just go for fusions for I want this so then in my mind when I'm preaching through this 19:03.260 --> 19:07.020 I'm going to be constantly reminded like oh, yeah the whole point and every verse 19:07.020 --> 19:10.880 I'm trying to tie back to this thought this is kind of the main thought of this chapter 19:10.880 --> 19:14.460 And this is why you know a passenger saying is true like if you're preaching through Proverbs chapter 12 19:14.460 --> 19:21.920 It's harder to do something like this right because you don't really necessarily have a context that's been building from Proverbs 1 2 3 4 5 6 19:21.920 --> 19:25.660 All the way to chapter 12 and chapter 12 as one kind of main coherent thought 19:25.660 --> 19:29.040 But a lot of the New Testament a lot of the Bible is going to have 19:29.040 --> 19:33.600 Building context and you want to make sure that you're kind of keeping that in mind 19:33.600 --> 19:37.860 You're keeping that in view and it helps with the congregation learning in my opinion 19:38.580 --> 19:43.500 My goal and expository preaching my number one goal is that people will walk out 19:43.500 --> 19:50.940 Having a big picture of what the chapter is about like I just I just don't want people to have spent an hour with me and 19:51.360 --> 19:58.880 Plus on a chapter of the Bible and feel like I don't even know what chapter 4 is about at all 19:58.880 --> 20:03.680 And also of course secondary goal would be that they have a pretty good 20:04.320 --> 20:08.380 Understanding of the verses like if we went to the verse they could kind of like yeah 20:08.380 --> 20:13.780 This is what that verse is saying and this is what that verse meant. I'm not my goal is not to 20:15.020 --> 20:22.100 Preach a topical sermon necessarily or to emphasize one particular point that I just really want to stress 20:22.100 --> 20:25.900 That's kind of like ice a Jesus like I don't want to say like I don't want to come to chapter 4 with an agenda 20:25.900 --> 20:29.400 I want to let I want a chapter 4 to 20:29.400 --> 20:35.460 To be the agenda and I want whatever chapter 4 is emphasizing to be my topic 20:35.460 --> 20:39.380 So you're gonna still I think you still do topical sermons in an expository sermon 20:39.380 --> 20:43.780 But your topic should be whatever was brought up in chapter number 4, okay? 20:44.620 --> 20:48.500 Then as I as I'm physically I'm getting I'm saying physically writing this sermon 20:48.500 --> 20:51.260 I'll just start making verse divisions 20:51.260 --> 20:58.860 I'll say like verse 1 through and I'll just look at it and say like how much would I like to read in 20:58.860 --> 21:03.920 In connection and then and then go through like kind of explaining that section 21:04.460 --> 21:07.740 I'll a healthy one for me and a common one for me is a sentence 21:08.420 --> 21:13.660 I'll just look at it and I'll say like okay. Well fission is chapter 4 verse 1 2 21:14.220 --> 21:19.240 And 3 are one sentence. So maybe I'll just go from verses 1 to 3 21:20.040 --> 21:22.480 Is what I'll I'll I'll so when I'm here 21:22.480 --> 21:25.560 I'm going to read verses 1 and 3 and then I'm going to walk through that 21:26.120 --> 21:29.660 And then as I'm looking at this I might think okay. What do I want to 21:30.980 --> 21:34.920 Emphasize in this or what is something that's you know, this sentence is really communicating 21:35.560 --> 21:41.260 And I might say like okay. Well, I really like the point here that the whole point is kind of like that. We're endeavoring 21:47.580 --> 21:47.980 to 21:48.920 --> 21:49.320 keep 21:51.000 --> 21:51.740 The unity 21:54.240 --> 21:58.900 That's that's what I'm so when I get through this I'm going to go through the verse and I might go through each sentence 21:58.900 --> 22:05.800 But this is kind of what I want to land on when I'm here and I kind of want to like emphasize this point that's being made here now 22:06.900 --> 22:10.400 I may and then not necessarily in this sermon, but I may 22:10.820 --> 22:15.700 If I like this what and I say I want to spend a little bit extra time on this 22:15.700 --> 22:19.220 And I think there's other view verses that I would want to bring up 22:19.220 --> 22:23.960 Because you can do whatever you want. Maybe I want to emphasize this word unity or something 22:24.880 --> 22:31.200 And so like I'll put over here like hey, I want to go and talk about this even more and I want to go to like first john 22:32.000 --> 22:38.360 chapter number five verse seven and talk about how these three are one and then I want to go to john chapter 17 22:39.260 --> 22:40.460 and talk about 22:42.800 --> 22:47.420 Jesus and the father being one and how how were to be in one with god 22:47.960 --> 22:52.900 So the I want to kind of emphasize this and I'll just kind of have this so this is my rabbit trail 22:53.960 --> 22:59.580 Over here, right, but I might just say like I don't like that sometimes what I'll do especially in sermon writing 23:00.220 --> 23:01.740 Is I'll always do this 23:02.280 --> 23:04.060 But I may not actually use this in my sermon 23:04.780 --> 23:06.600 Right, it's just available for me 23:06.600 --> 23:10.140 Like I'm basically just building this outline and maybe in the sermon 23:10.140 --> 23:12.640 I like have this rabbit trail if I want to go down it 23:12.640 --> 23:14.260 But then I decide in the sermon now 23:14.260 --> 23:17.000 I'm not really feeling it and the sermon kind of went a different way 23:17.000 --> 23:20.320 So I'm just going to skip that or maybe in the review section 23:20.320 --> 23:21.720 I might even just mark through it 23:21.720 --> 23:25.140 But I'm just kind of building this as I'm kind of writing this sermon 23:25.140 --> 23:27.240 Then I'll say like okay, let's go to verse four 23:28.280 --> 23:28.640 and 23:29.240 --> 23:31.800 Let's make another section. I'm like, okay, I like this 23:32.700 --> 23:33.060 and 23:33.060 --> 23:35.500 I like going from verses four to 23:35.940 --> 23:38.880 Six because it kind of makes it's one sentence again. It makes a lot of sense 23:39.380 --> 23:44.000 And in my physical notes what I ended up doing in this section is I said, you know what? 23:44.460 --> 23:49.940 I think it's important to explain this verse. Well, so I'm going to go verses four to six and I'm going to write down here 23:50.780 --> 23:51.820 one body 23:53.200 --> 23:55.300 And I'm going to write down spirit 23:56.080 --> 23:57.800 Because it's a list 23:58.480 --> 24:01.280 It's going to be hope of your calling 24:02.500 --> 24:03.960 It's going to be lord 24:05.120 --> 24:06.720 It's going to be faith 24:08.360 --> 24:10.680 We've got baptism 24:14.440 --> 24:17.020 And then we have god and father, okay 24:17.760 --> 24:19.760 So that's kind of like what that verse said 24:20.940 --> 24:24.640 And what I'll do is then I'll say, you know what I want to kind of like put over here 24:24.640 --> 24:26.840 What what would I say about this? 24:27.540 --> 24:29.900 Like what is what do I want to communicate about this? 24:30.280 --> 24:32.640 And I would just say like when the body 24:33.180 --> 24:37.940 I was thinking about how there's just one body of christ like we're a body like that's like a religious body 24:38.380 --> 24:41.700 And there's other bodies out there like an islamic body 24:42.200 --> 24:43.960 Or you know a pagan body 24:44.500 --> 24:46.880 And we you know, we're not associated with them 24:46.880 --> 24:54.280 You know the vatican too says that the islamicist is worshiping the same god. Well false 24:55.100 --> 24:59.320 They're not part of the body of christ. So that's the application I want to go. So I would say like, you know 25:01.320 --> 25:02.800 Like other religions 25:07.480 --> 25:08.200 Are false 25:09.440 --> 25:10.880 And that's the point that I wanted to make 25:10.880 --> 25:17.820 You know spirit I could put here like the spirit of truth is the one thing I want to emphasize hope is hey in the gospel 25:17.820 --> 25:22.660 The lord, that's the jesus christ faith. It's salvation by faith alone baptism 25:22.660 --> 25:26.260 There's only one water baptism after faith by immersion, right 25:26.260 --> 25:30.540 God there's only one god the father and so I'll just have that in my notes 25:30.540 --> 25:32.380 And I'm not going to physically write it just for sake of time 25:32.380 --> 25:34.820 But I'm just trying to give you an idea. This is what my notes would look like 25:35.220 --> 25:37.780 I'm not writing what I'm going to say 25:37.780 --> 25:40.760 I'm writing a triggering thought or phrase 25:41.620 --> 25:44.440 Next to the these ideas so that when I'm getting there 25:44.880 --> 25:49.420 I'll remember what I was trying what I was kind of thinking about and what I was trying to communicate 25:50.200 --> 25:54.080 It doesn't have to be like a verse. It could be anything, right? 25:55.280 --> 25:58.880 It could be like, hey, there's a quote out in the world that I like 25:58.880 --> 26:03.580 And sometimes you do have to put that in your notes, right? You want to read a quote or something, you know 26:03.580 --> 26:07.680 But if it's something that you you know, you just want to say or bring up 26:07.780 --> 26:10.600 You could just you know, maybe I just want to talk about Adam Fanon 26:10.600 --> 26:12.600 Just put Fanon's name right here or something 26:13.140 --> 26:16.780 You know because I just want to talk about how he recently said something stupid on this subject 26:16.780 --> 26:19.760 But I don't need to like write it all out. I need to spell it all out 26:19.760 --> 26:22.880 So again, this is kind of how I would do an expository 26:24.060 --> 26:29.100 sermon practically speaking writing it and you could just see I mean I have countless examples in here 26:29.100 --> 26:35.180 Of just like hey, this is the chapter. I'm writing out which verses I'm planning on doing and kind of like a 26:36.240 --> 26:38.940 Like clumping together that I want to go through and again 26:39.640 --> 26:40.600 This is to help me 26:41.600 --> 26:46.880 I don't have to do this sometimes I'm reading the verse and I just stop on verse one because I just I just want to 26:47.240 --> 26:48.720 Because you know what? I can do whatever I want 26:49.480 --> 26:53.780 I don't even have to apologize like passersons and I didn't have to apologize when I'm up here, okay 26:54.660 --> 26:58.040 So again, this is just for me to help and it's just kind of guiding me 26:58.840 --> 27:02.400 In writing a sermon you do not have to do this literally 27:02.900 --> 27:06.640 I'm giving you my tips of how I write a sermon and what's helpful for me 27:06.640 --> 27:11.340 If there's something that helps you better or you like doing something do whatever 27:11.340 --> 27:14.740 I've sometimes drawn pictures here because it just helps me 27:15.260 --> 27:15.740 I've 27:15.740 --> 27:20.820 And then I've drawn them on the board or I draw plotted things or you know, whatever 27:20.820 --> 27:24.660 But again, if your notes are not helping you you should change 27:24.660 --> 27:28.200 If you feel like your notes are not helping you do a good job 27:28.200 --> 27:32.720 Adapt and what I found for me is having a strong outline 27:33.400 --> 27:36.980 And it being one page that I can just look down 27:36.980 --> 27:39.820 I can I can just write I can just look down. I just know where I'm at 27:39.820 --> 27:46.420 Okay, that helps me it keeps it focused. I'm not having to turn pages. I'm not getting lost in my notes 27:46.420 --> 27:51.420 I'm not, you know, whatever and I'm just keeping it laser focused that for me is really helpful 27:51.420 --> 27:53.020 So this is an expository example 27:53.640 --> 27:54.900 I want to also do a 27:56.160 --> 27:56.560 topical 27:57.260 --> 27:59.920 Outline what I what I do practically speaking 28:00.460 --> 28:05.160 Now again, some of times I just have I've had like five six pages of notes that I've typed up 28:05.840 --> 28:08.600 I would say I lean into using the computer 28:09.940 --> 28:13.580 If I'm using a lot of references and quotes 28:13.580 --> 28:17.660 So if I'm going to be quoting other things because I don't want to write that out 28:17.660 --> 28:19.560 So I'm just like pulling out 28:20.160 --> 28:25.040 Large bodies of text and then I'm putting them in there. So that'll kind of help me 28:25.040 --> 28:25.840 Um 28:26.400 --> 28:32.120 If you if you want like I personally like to just have my bible in this and I turn to every place 28:33.060 --> 28:37.900 Maybe you struggle to like go turn to the places and you don't want to do that 28:37.900 --> 28:42.520 You could write out your your actual verses and you don't have to turn your bible. That's totally fine 28:42.520 --> 28:46.440 But one thing I like about turning the bible the bible myself is this 28:47.100 --> 28:49.060 It paces me well with the congregation 28:49.060 --> 28:53.620 Because I'm not gonna I can't start reading the verse before I turn there 28:53.620 --> 28:56.220 So it just gives me just kind of a natural pacing 28:56.900 --> 28:57.340 Secondly 28:58.300 --> 29:02.100 If sometimes I'm like I've had a time where I'm certain I'm preaching a sermon 29:03.200 --> 29:04.620 And I have the verse there 29:04.620 --> 29:09.560 But then I'm thinking like oh, I think the verse before it is something that I could have used or 29:09.560 --> 29:11.700 Hey, I'm kind of trying to remember like 29:12.960 --> 29:16.720 The context of this and because I don't have it on the page 29:16.720 --> 29:20.600 Then I can't necessarily nail it down and so by turning there 29:20.600 --> 29:23.820 I I might be using verse five, but I'm like, oh, yeah 29:23.820 --> 29:24.720 Look at verse one 29:24.720 --> 29:30.480 It's paul that we're talking about here and then here you go into old testament section. It's like, hey, this is king 29:31.120 --> 29:35.700 Isaiah or something and you have it there because if you just had the quote you might be like 29:35.700 --> 29:37.340 It's the king of israel 29:37.820 --> 29:41.860 The king of israel or whatever and you don't you're not like helping yourself 29:42.320 --> 29:47.260 So I'm just saying like sometimes it's helpful in my mind to actually have turned there 29:47.260 --> 29:50.120 So then you have more context available 29:50.700 --> 29:52.060 You could read more verses 29:52.660 --> 29:54.420 You're going to pace yourself a little bit better 29:54.420 --> 29:58.960 But if you cannot turn in the bible very quickly, you probably should you know 29:59.720 --> 30:03.100 Avoid that. I'm just saying like for me. I usually I'm okay 30:03.560 --> 30:06.540 At doing that. Here's the danger though, and I've done this too 30:06.540 --> 30:11.460 It's like my first and second timothy don't look that much different because they have like we're roman noodles 30:11.460 --> 30:14.720 And sometimes I'm like start reading a verse. It's the totally wrong verse 30:15.860 --> 30:18.420 You can either just go with it or be like, all right, sorry this verse 30:19.940 --> 30:23.160 But so the nothing's perfect, you know, but at the end of the day 30:24.160 --> 30:27.900 That's what I find helps me is just to have a bible have a one-pager 30:28.280 --> 30:30.440 And I would like for you to just try that 30:30.840 --> 30:34.420 You know in some of our preaching, you know when we do this 30:34.420 --> 30:37.920 Maybe try writing out a sermon having just the notes 30:38.420 --> 30:39.580 And just your bible 30:40.600 --> 30:43.380 If you want to write up the the entire verse, that's fine 30:43.820 --> 30:48.860 So when I write a topical sermon, it's going to be somewhat similar, but it's going to be 30:49.760 --> 30:51.080 A few changes so 30:52.160 --> 30:55.020 I'm going to give you an example. This is this is a sermon that I wrote 30:55.020 --> 30:58.100 Okay, so I'm just kind of giving you an example that a recent sermon I preached 30:58.760 --> 31:01.860 Um, you already went let's say we already went through the brainstorming session 31:01.860 --> 31:05.000 So we already kind of have that and we're just physically writing it 31:05.000 --> 31:07.940 I always I preach a sermon recently called the majority or wrong 31:08.440 --> 31:12.020 So I just have at literally the top of my outline 31:12.780 --> 31:13.660 The majority 31:16.960 --> 31:19.680 Are wrong so I have the title of my sermon 31:21.940 --> 31:24.380 And here's the thing the title of my sermon 31:25.140 --> 31:29.100 In all fairness isn't necessarily the exact goal 31:29.700 --> 31:34.060 Okay, or it's not necessarily clear what the goal was that I was trying to communicate 31:34.660 --> 31:37.760 But what what is the goal that I'm trying to communicate in this sermon? 31:37.860 --> 31:41.480 Why did I preach this sermon the reason why I'm preaching this sermon is because 31:42.440 --> 31:46.220 The roman catholic church and the orthodox church and a lot of other 31:46.820 --> 31:50.280 Religions will try to appeal to a majority as to why they are right 31:50.780 --> 31:56.620 And they'll say well look at the look at all the church fathers all the church fathers agree with us or 31:57.140 --> 32:04.400 Look how many number we have and so that proves that we're right or how could the new ifb be right when y'all are so small 32:04.400 --> 32:10.240 When y'all are such a tiny faction this this thought can creep into people's mind and this can affect people 32:10.240 --> 32:15.560 They think like yeah, it does seem like a cult and they think they're right and they think everyone else is wrong 32:15.560 --> 32:18.480 And they think the majority are wrong and they're against a lot of people 32:18.480 --> 32:22.240 This is a this is a constant attack and especially, you know 32:22.240 --> 32:27.420 Women or new believers and stuff this can really affect them to feel like wow 32:27.420 --> 32:28.400 I don't know, you know 32:28.400 --> 32:32.400 It's crazy to think that we're right and everybody else is wrong and how could everybody be wrong 32:32.960 --> 32:35.640 Because there's this group think that exists in our society 32:36.120 --> 32:39.140 And so why am I preaching this because I want people to realize 32:39.140 --> 32:42.960 The bible emphasizes this idea that the majority are wrong 32:43.400 --> 32:45.060 And it's the minority that are right 32:45.560 --> 32:50.020 So that if you are looking for true faith, you can never be found in the majority 32:50.840 --> 32:53.340 Okay, now we'll be we'll be a verse 32:54.060 --> 32:56.420 That I would hank anchor my sermon on 32:57.020 --> 33:00.900 Well, matthew 7 verses 13 through 14 33:01.540 --> 33:04.160 And so I just have here matthew 33:07.760 --> 33:08.220 matthew 7 33:10.360 --> 33:11.640 13 through 14 33:13.000 --> 33:13.920 okay, and 33:15.020 --> 33:17.060 Literally, I just have written out here 33:19.480 --> 33:20.880 Few are saved 33:21.400 --> 33:21.760 Okay 33:23.940 --> 33:28.680 Because that's what that's what I want. I'm gonna I'm starting my sermon. This is where I know I'm gonna go 33:28.680 --> 33:32.820 This is what I know I'm gonna teach this is what I'm anchoring my sermon on and again 33:32.820 --> 33:34.960 This is red letters from Jesus 33:35.960 --> 33:40.040 When I when I preach this sermon, you know, we can read those verses, but 33:41.140 --> 33:46.300 It says entering at the straight gate for wide as the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction 33:46.300 --> 33:51.960 And many there be which go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth into life 33:51.960 --> 33:54.600 And a few there be that find it 33:54.600 --> 33:55.240 So 33:55.720 --> 33:57.920 If we just think about what is what is that 33:58.480 --> 34:01.580 Verse or what are those verses trying to say isn't it trying to say 34:01.580 --> 34:05.480 That the few are going to be the ones that are right the fewer the ones that are going to go to heaven 34:06.080 --> 34:11.780 And does that not also underscore and really emphasize this point? Then I guess the majority are wrong 34:12.380 --> 34:13.460 And that's the reality 34:14.240 --> 34:17.040 Now as I had done to my brainstorming and whatever 34:18.100 --> 34:21.960 I ended up creating points. I didn't have just one point to my sermon 34:21.960 --> 34:24.900 I could have just done one one point and the point is just that 34:25.520 --> 34:26.940 The majority are not saved 34:27.540 --> 34:32.320 Right, but I also wanted to go to other points that I had thought of throughout my sermon 34:32.320 --> 34:34.720 But since this is our number one point 34:35.290 --> 34:40.420 In the sense that that's where we started and it made this point that they're not saved. I literally just say number one 34:41.060 --> 34:41.880 not saved 34:42.840 --> 34:47.240 And I underline it and I make it really prominent in my notes. Okay 34:47.720 --> 34:48.980 and think about 34:49.880 --> 34:54.100 I think about sometimes how I want to say my title with this phrase 34:54.900 --> 34:59.860 Because I'll say the majority are wrong because the majority are not saved 35:00.600 --> 35:04.800 And I've already planned that is like I can just say this as many times as I want my sermon 35:04.800 --> 35:10.280 I can say the majority are wrong because the majority are not saved point one, right 35:10.820 --> 35:13.040 And then I'm going to in this section 35:13.040 --> 35:15.140 I'm going to have like whatever verses 35:15.640 --> 35:21.640 That I want to go to to emphasize or sub points to emphasize how the majority are not saved 35:22.420 --> 35:25.840 I had written in here romans 9 6 through 8 35:30.320 --> 35:37.440 That's that's a supporting text that I want to go to and talk about I also had in here luke 35:41.120 --> 35:43.240 13 23 through 24 35:46.260 --> 35:49.480 So I have these as verses that I want to go to sometimes again 35:49.480 --> 35:52.020 Like I said in my other sermon sometimes I have this 35:52.020 --> 35:57.640 And I feel like I've made this point and I just want to move on so I don't have to use this as an exhaustive thing 35:57.640 --> 35:59.520 But I just have them prepared. I have them ready 35:59.520 --> 36:05.000 And if there was a specific thought or application I wanted to make with this then I would just put that thought 36:05.560 --> 36:07.660 Right next to that particular 36:08.420 --> 36:08.780 verse 36:10.980 --> 36:14.260 A second thing that I ended up teaching in my sermon was number two 36:16.620 --> 36:17.580 false prophets 36:30.080 --> 36:35.080 Why did I why did I write it this way? Well, and I had first john 4 1 36:39.140 --> 36:42.540 Well, I know that after I've felt comfortable about this point 36:42.540 --> 36:47.160 I'm going to say the majority are wrong because the majority are not saved 36:47.840 --> 36:50.940 But not only that the majority are false prophets 36:51.540 --> 36:53.600 And I'm going to go to first john 4 1 that says hey 36:53.600 --> 36:57.340 There's the many and then I had a lot of supporting texts that I also use in this 36:57.840 --> 37:02.500 Um, you know, you have the 450 prophets of bale versus the one man of god 37:03.040 --> 37:06.420 So I was just using a lot of other supporting texts in this particular point 37:06.860 --> 37:09.460 And so, you know, again, I'm not going to 37:09.460 --> 37:13.260 Because of the board's size, I'm not going to physically start keep writing everything 37:13.260 --> 37:14.860 But I would write all my other 37:15.740 --> 37:21.100 Supporting verses here and if I had a thought associated with that if there's a passage that I'm going to use 37:21.660 --> 37:24.520 That I'm not necessarily as familiar with, you know, like 37:25.100 --> 37:29.560 Um, in this example, I have first kings 18 17 through 19 as well 37:35.250 --> 37:35.770 and 37:36.450 --> 37:39.510 You know, I might I might end up just saying like right here like 37:41.250 --> 37:41.770 Elijah 37:43.850 --> 37:44.370 And 37:45.250 --> 37:46.290 the prophets 37:47.790 --> 37:48.810 Of bale 37:49.630 --> 37:52.970 So then in my mind when I'm when I'm turning there 37:52.970 --> 37:57.770 I can start already talking about that as I'm leading up to as we're turning in our bibles and we're going 37:58.350 --> 38:04.430 I'm building the context about the verse that I'm going to go to and if I don't because a lot of my sermons are verse heavy 38:04.990 --> 38:07.630 I might I remember like which one was this again? 38:08.070 --> 38:13.010 But if I put this then I'll be like, oh, yeah, that's that's where I'm going. This is what I'm trying to do 38:13.010 --> 38:16.310 I don't have to necessarily spell out everything I'm going to say 38:16.310 --> 38:19.610 I'm just giving myself triggers in my mind of what I'm going to say 38:20.670 --> 38:21.030 um 38:21.650 --> 38:23.350 Then I'm going to go through the rest of my points 38:23.350 --> 38:29.530 I had number three that they're given to idolatry number four. They're not disciples number five 38:29.530 --> 38:36.310 They're not virtuous. I don't even know that I really emphasize point five of my actual sermon because I kind of I always run out of time, but 38:38.410 --> 38:40.750 I would say after I've kind of written this outline 38:42.730 --> 38:44.110 Also, what I may do 38:44.610 --> 38:47.730 After I kind of have this outline is I might think is there another 38:48.370 --> 38:51.590 Just thing that I want to communicate. Is there a clear application? 38:52.330 --> 38:53.910 What did I want to say? 38:54.590 --> 38:56.390 Like what is it? I really want people 38:56.870 --> 39:02.350 To do what is it? I really want people to think about and then I'll just write a section in my sermon 39:02.930 --> 39:05.570 About what I wanted to say whether that's a phrase 39:05.570 --> 39:11.010 Triggering idea and then just some bullet points of what I really wanted to communicate 39:11.010 --> 39:11.670 so 39:12.210 --> 39:15.550 I I literally have here in my notes. What did I want to say? 39:16.050 --> 39:18.110 And I said the majority are going to hell 39:18.590 --> 39:21.050 The majority of people are doing nothing about it 39:21.590 --> 39:28.250 And you know the fundies can get mad at me for smashing icons. But it's the thing. How are they reaching the catholic church? 39:30.190 --> 39:34.550 I mean when's the last time you've heard of catholics being you know reached by the independent 39:34.550 --> 39:36.070 The ifb 39:36.070 --> 39:40.010 It's kind of rare only the ones that are soul winning and then it's minimal 39:40.570 --> 39:45.790 In that regard they're not really waking up a lot of people and why would I want 1.4 billion people to go to hell? 39:46.330 --> 39:50.990 You know because I just don't want to offend someone. It's just it's you know, it's kind of a silly idea 39:51.550 --> 39:57.190 And I also seem I feel like some churches not just ifb, but just churches in general 39:57.190 --> 40:02.150 They're becoming very ecumenical acting like Catholics are saved acting like they're our brothers acting like 40:02.150 --> 40:06.050 You know that we should just be kind and nice to them 40:06.050 --> 40:11.270 And it's like why would I what is the benefit of being nice to someone that's going to go to hell? 40:12.590 --> 40:13.530 Like oh, man 40:13.530 --> 40:17.410 I'm really glad that Baptist was nice to me while I'm burning in hell for all eternity 40:18.030 --> 40:22.250 Like he's going to be like man. I wish he had smashed my my front porch icon in front of me 40:22.690 --> 40:27.130 I'm not saying do that. Okay. I'm just saying like and hell. He's probably would it be like 40:27.130 --> 40:31.630 I would rather that guy shook me you know grab me and shook me and just like tried to wake me up 40:31.630 --> 40:32.810 like you know 40:33.370 --> 40:36.410 And so, you know again, those are some of the things I want to say 40:37.070 --> 40:38.050 And I'm building 40:38.950 --> 40:42.970 The sermon so that I can say what I want to say in a five minute sermon 40:42.970 --> 40:46.550 You can do the same thing you probably I'm giving you like a big sermon 40:47.590 --> 40:53.910 Illustrationer in a smaller five minute sermon think about it. What is the three minute rant that I want to give? 40:54.950 --> 40:56.450 What do I want to say? 40:56.830 --> 41:01.330 What do I really want to say and then it's like, okay, spend the first two minutes 41:01.970 --> 41:04.510 Giving yourself the permission to say that you know what I mean 41:05.630 --> 41:12.350 Give yourself those first few minutes or minutes to kind of get there so that then you can just unleash and in a way that 41:12.970 --> 41:16.470 You've justified it. You proved it. You're going to convince the gainsayer 41:16.470 --> 41:20.870 And we're going to emotionally be invested in the communication that you have 41:20.870 --> 41:23.190 You're not just already screaming at us 41:23.810 --> 41:29.430 And hoping that we already agree you're you're helping us that down that journey of why you feel the way you do 41:29.430 --> 41:34.830 You know be like jesus where you're slowly building the cord of whips before you go in and turn over the tables 41:35.790 --> 41:40.330 Okay, so the sermon writing and and the sermon notes should be like you're building the cord 41:40.330 --> 41:43.590 I'm building the cord and then I'm going to use the cord. Okay 41:44.650 --> 41:46.650 This church knows about cords. You know what I mean? 41:47.910 --> 41:48.510 There's no 41:49.170 --> 41:53.690 Minor cords aren't a problem here and major cords for sure aren't okay, so 41:56.870 --> 42:03.450 I'm just trying to give you a practical tip of like how to write your sermons. I think you know again 42:04.190 --> 42:08.810 If we if we go through this process, you know, let anything inspire you 42:09.490 --> 42:11.710 Let anything, you know 42:12.470 --> 42:14.530 Get you through this brainstorming process 42:15.490 --> 42:18.230 And I sometimes I'm kind of doing both 42:18.230 --> 42:20.210 So that's why it's a blended 42:20.790 --> 42:27.650 Two two classes. Okay, because sometimes I'm trying to go through that process of writing my sermon while I'm coming up with the idea 42:27.650 --> 42:29.090 And you know 42:29.090 --> 42:30.370 Occasionally it works out 42:30.370 --> 42:34.070 Sometimes I've written an outline the first time and it just is like well dang that worked 42:34.590 --> 42:38.410 But it's because I've gone through this process a lot mentally that I kind of already know what I'm looking for 42:38.410 --> 42:42.210 So as I'm thinking of an idea, I'm like, okay, what would be my goal would be my title 42:42.210 --> 42:46.970 What would be my points and and once I have that I feel really comfortable about my sermon 42:47.390 --> 42:50.250 Um and that kind of just helps me have confidence 42:50.710 --> 42:55.890 And I find myself as well if I get up behind the pulpit and I don't really have 42:56.530 --> 43:01.750 My outline isn't very strong or I'm I end up struggling to communicate what I want to say 43:03.050 --> 43:06.570 If I have a strong outline, I feel like I do a lot better job 43:06.570 --> 43:09.170 Communicating what I want to say and explaining the points 43:09.890 --> 43:13.950 One other tip that I struggle with as well, but I would say this is 43:14.670 --> 43:18.710 Um if you if you really have something that you want to communicate, okay 43:20.290 --> 43:23.590 This is this is as physically writing it when we're in the brainstorming session 43:25.010 --> 43:29.150 Whatever you really want to communicate or whatever you think is probably your your most important point 43:29.150 --> 43:31.950 You probably want to stagger it that way, right? 43:32.430 --> 43:35.470 Start with the point that because because you're not going to end up 43:36.130 --> 43:40.210 Not making it you're starting with it, right? So sometimes you want to really think about like 43:40.750 --> 43:43.170 If you really want to communicate point four 43:43.950 --> 43:45.170 Maybe make it point one 43:46.130 --> 43:49.570 And that might force you to change your title it may force you to 43:50.130 --> 43:53.610 Restructure your notes or whatever but again if we have a goal 43:54.110 --> 43:57.070 And again, I'm flipping these but it's like if we have a goal 43:57.710 --> 44:00.990 You know, we want to we want to achieve it successfully. We want to get there 44:00.990 --> 44:05.290 You know structure structure and write your sermons to achieve that goal as best you can 44:05.770 --> 44:08.650 And you know time management can be difficult for anyone 44:08.650 --> 44:14.850 It doesn't matter. It's one minute five minutes an hour 30 minutes like time management is difficult and we all know 44:15.370 --> 44:18.530 Sometimes you're preaching for 30 seconds and it feels like five minutes 44:19.250 --> 44:22.610 And sometimes you're preaching for an hour and it felt like 20 minutes. So 44:23.210 --> 44:25.110 Time is a very difficult thing 44:25.730 --> 44:26.410 When preaching? 44:26.990 --> 44:30.270 So again emphasizing what you really want to emphasize the goal 44:30.810 --> 44:34.490 Where you want to land these things will help you and I hope that like writing 44:34.490 --> 44:39.650 You know these kind of style notes you might see some improvement. So I'm just going to spend the rest of the time 44:39.650 --> 44:40.850 We're going to be like five minutes 44:41.390 --> 44:42.030 So just 44:42.570 --> 44:47.130 Work on if you ever have a sermon try to write a sermon the structure that I just showed you 44:48.210 --> 44:51.570 And then we can yield the rest of the time to actually just doing some more preaching 44:51.570 --> 44:54.750 And giving some some more opportunities for people to preach 44:55.290 --> 44:55.810 But this