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Homiletics

What is Preaching

Ask the class, what is preaching???

We can define Christian preaching as the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the context of a worship service. I would say that it’s the main point of the worship service. The main purpose or objective of preaching is to help the audience interpret life in the light of Christian faith.

“A manifestation of the incarnate Word, from the written Word, by the spoken Word.”

Bernard Manning

“Preaching is the communication of divine truth through human personality.”

Phillips Brooks

It is through the filter of human personality that God has chosen to proclaim himself to the world.. Preaching still appeals to the human heart.

The goal of preaching is to communicate divine truth to humanity.

- Preaching must contain divine truth

- Preaching must communicate divine truth

- Preaching must come through human beings

“For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!” 1 Corinthians 9:16 NKJV

Fads and fashions come and go, opinions and ideas shift, but the preaching of truth remains constant, and unchanged.

Preaching is the communication of God’s Truth by God’s Servant to meet the needs of the people. If we accept this defination, we are making several important affirmations.

1) There is such a thing as God’s truth

a. We can know this truth (“There is a God in heaven reveals secrets” Daniel 2:28)

b. We can experience this truth and share this truth

c. People can receive this truth, apply it, and be changed by it.

2) We must know the truth ourselves

a. We must experince the truth personally

So preaching is the proclaimation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the context of a Christian Service through the filter of humanity.

“So we are Christ’s ambassadors: God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ.”

2 Corinthians 5:

What is Homelitics

Ask the class, what is homelitcs?

“Homiletics” is the discipline that studies the theory, practice, and art of “preaching”.

Preaching is an art because it has rhythm, retoric, cadance, presentation, emotion, human appeal, it combines the use of voice, pitch, range, projection, body language, hand jestures, facial expression, humor, witt, charisma.

Preaching is a science because it is systematic, percise, requires study, preparation, an outline, a target, an objective, research, content, and a definative beginning and an ending.

Preaching is spiritual because it requires a prayer life, consecration, intemacy with God, devotion, a lifestyle of worship and serviceability, requires a connection to a local body of believers.

The divine truth never changes; the human personality constantly changes—and this is what makes the message new and unique every time.

So, what is Homelitics?

Homelitics is the science that studies the art of preaching.

“Christ is the only King of your studies, but homiletics is the queen. God save the Queen!”

Dr Robert G. Rayburn

There are 3 components that are present in every sermon preached.

1) The Preacher

2) The Preparation

3) The Presentation

While preaching is spiritual and demands the anointing of God, it is also comunication.

It is puplic speaking and there are fundamentals to effective public speaking that can be learned. You have the message from God that will change humanity, but if you have horrible communication skills, you will fumble the message.

The Preacher - Communicators

“Preaching is the communication of divine truth through human personality.”

“Communication” comes from the Latin word “communis” which means – to make common.

Our Job as preachers is dig into the word of God and extract a truth and make it common to the congregation.

And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

—Ephesians 6:19–20

People shouldn’t leave more confused than enlightened, because the hidden things of God need to be made common to all.

“when I begin my sermons I dare the person not to listen to me. Not that I’m that great – its just that I’ve got something to say that’s too imporant to ignore.”

Charles Swindall

CHRISTS AMBASSADORS

2 Corinthians 5:20 NLT

So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ..”

God tells us that he needs us to make His appeal to mankind (we speak for him).

For this, he needs a mouthpiece for communication!

Communication is the reason for our existence as teachers.

It’s also our #1 teaching problem.

There is no such thing as a boring topics, just boring teachers!

A good communicator with homelitics can bring life and energy to any topic.

A balance needs to be maintained between truth and personality. If truth is emphasized to the exclusion of personality, preaching can become sterile and boring…that’s no fun!

However, if personality overshadows truth, the result is the kind of proclamation in which the medium becomes the message. The gospel does not ride on the personality of any of us.

BUILDING BRIDGES

To truly impart information requires the building of bridges. A classic biblical example of building bridges through communication can be viewed through the conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well. The common “bridge” that he used was their thirst for water. In teaching, (especially 1 on 1 or in small groups) building or finding bridges with our audience is imperative.

All communication has 3 essentials components: intellect, emotion, and action.

So whenever we want to communication to another individual it involves 3 things…

Something we know (intellect) Something we feel (emotion) Something we do (action)

So, if I know something thoroughly, feel it deeply, and am doing it consistently, I have great potential for being an excellent communicator (on that topic). In fact, the more you know it, the more you feel it, the more you do it, the great the impact!

The best message that you’ll every deliver is the ones that you’ve lived out.

The most effective communication always includes an emotional ingredient – the feeling factor, the excitement factor. As communicators of God’s word, we have to feel it!

Teaching involves a delicate balance and relationship between content and communication, between facts and form, between what you teach and how you teach it.

ü Teaching is content Driven

ü Preaching is emotion Driven

We take concepts and feelings and action, translate them into words, then we communicate them through speech.

This requires 2 things: preparation and presentation.

Preparation - introduction, a body, and a conclusion Presentation – enunciation, energy, body language

Communication – Voice & Pitch

The issue is not if a preacher can talk, but if a preacher can communicate.

Our primary communication device is our voice.

The voice is the speaker’s great instrument. Nothing else in a man’s physical constitution is nearly so important. Let there by variety: pitch range, force, speed, volume, and pauses.

Brief pauses are used to allow the listener time to absorb what is heard. Longer pauses usually indicate a change of thought, but they may also be used to increase the attention of the congregation. Intermediate pauses may be used to introduce or dismiss a related but extraneous idea, to make a transition from one thought to another, or to allow time for descriptive material to be absorbed.

Short pauses are appropriate in reading Matthew 5:13 because of the relatedness of the material:

· “You are the salt of the earth;” (short pause)

· “but if the salt loses its flavor,” (intermediate pause)

· “how will it be made salty again?” (short pause)

· “It is good for nothing any more,” (short pause)

· “except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men”.

Long pauses are most often used to indicate a change of thought. They are also good devices for gaining attention. The lengthy silence (lengthy, that is, when compared to the brief and intermediate pauses that are used most of the time in preaching) draws attention to itself and thus to the next few words you preach. Use a pause for this purpose infrequently, and only when you have something very important to say. As your sermon progresses, you may need an occasional long pause when you move from one point or section to another. The long pause allows time for information to be digested, and it communicates the fact that a major shift in ideas is taking place

Embrace Your Story

The experiences we preachers go through are not accidents; they are appointments. They do not interrupt our studies; they are an essential part of our studies. Our personalities, our physical equipment, and even our handicaps are all part of the kind of ministry God wants us to have. He wants us to be witnesses as well as heralds.

The apostles knew this: “For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard”