Showing posts with label Preaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preaching. Show all posts

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Methods for sermon without notes


How do? We have all seen the Ministers sermon without notes. Seem to indicate an action and trust. But the question many preacher of ask is how do?

There are many ways to the sermon without minimum reference notes. among these are:

  1. Write a complete manuscript and memorize this

Here preacher should totally write the sermon normally and then try to memorize the whole thing; this approach allows the preacher to specify full words to be used with the sermon, but allows a slide to go to reality with the flow of the event.  The main disadvantage is that it requires much more memory and a Herald of longer than they have to undertake a complete manuscript for memory. 

  2. Write an outline of some kind and memorize it.

  Here you must write the Herald of a structure and to memorize the border.The benefits include the ability to fully engage your audience and provides greater flexibility than the previous approach also requires much less time memorization from memorizing complete manuscript.  A major drawback is that this approach makes it impossible for well-designed phrases.Preacher memorizes what he will say how he would not say that.

3. Write parts of the sermon and memorize them.Outline of the other parties.

Some write import and memorize and/or this conclusion.Here you can you can totally phrase important parts of the sermon. you can get benefit of crafting fully portions of the sermon, but you can also maintain the ability to interact with the Assembly.

4. Memorize anything

Some people think that this is what everyone who preaches without notes. There are some who do this, but there are some significant disadvantages, a preacher is that can easily go rambling without moving to a point. While it is true that often preacher who follows this approach has one main point in mind, it is very easy to end up with a sermon that aren't sharp. However allows greater interaction with the Assembly.

These are the basic approaches. Choose an approach and then simply practice until you can obtain facility with the approach.







Thursday, October 28, 2010

How can the Exegete to sermon text


Interpretation may be considered by the biblical text from different angles and different depths. Don't just read the text once, read multiple times. In addition, not simply look for the same things every time, you can search for different things to each reading. I have started thinking about how exegetical as one of the waves.

The first Wave-Home Introduction to your text
Here are introduced in the text. First you must pray for God's enlightenment. Then I read the text aloud. Not necessarily looking anything but God our word. This can be regarded as "Devotional" type of reading. However after reading this text, make sure everything that comes to mind-related text. Can you think about a hymn your grandmother used to sing. Note that if it is related. You might be thinking that a singing Gospel. You think may be of a television broadcast or a story.Can you think of other Biblical characters and ideas; a particular word may protrude. All these things it should be noted and recorded.

May be there are some things you don't understand, go ahead and make a note of them, it'll be parties to return to note all these things and try to be reduced to one-two pages. This process can become compact will help you understand the text.

The second Wave-Traveling in deeper text
Here we try to answer all the questions we can answer from the Bible without referring to commentaries, dictionaries and other folks to be lectured. Want to look at but references. For this I would suggest that the Ministry of Finance of Scriptural knowledge. Look up important aspects of the text in this book and find all references. This will help to round out your knowledge of the text, in particular by examining other texts.

I want to tell the story in text. What is the narration? What runs?What are the characters? What do the characters? what does God? These are some of the questions will prompt you during this phase. You also need to consider the use of energy in the text.Who has the power; how do we get the power? Benefit from the power?

In addition to examine the theology presented in the text. What has to say about God's story?What has to say about what is transcendent?What has to say about living in this world?

Finally, you want to make particular reference to HOW the author of the text tells the story of what words used?Why the author should use these types of words? What arguments are used? How they relate to us; during this phase you will use cross references and a number of Bible translations.The key is that we are only the Bible.

Then refine your analysis page one-two to include what I have discovered during this phase.

The third Wave-assistance etc.
You now want to see the issues that are still left and search them using Bible dictionaries and comments what others have said the story? matches your comments? Do you think that the commentary should improve the understanding or you can improve yours?

Another important source is priests for others. Find others who have preached about the issue and to skim it. You can often find valuable material such as illustrations and similar articles of such an act.

And then you can also use religious resources.Our friends the most certainly you will see what he has to say about John Wesley. Those of the reformed tradition will break open John Calvin can obtain information about the topic. Here you can see what others from your ecclesial heritage had to say on the matter.

Continue and enhance the interpretation again with what you have been discovered here.

The fourth Wave-Walking through the text
You are now ready for what I see as a very important stage that is often overlooked. Here you should take a ride with the text.You need to walk and to live in the text.If your sermon about the sermon on the mount, then you aren't ready to preach this until you have experienced the first, second and third wave, and then on foot of the text.You should consider during the mount.How does this look?If you don't know then pull a book geography and the dictionary Paper again and see how's the weather like?You may not know, but you might get some form of vision a good Bible Dictionary. what kind of foliage is around you?What is the temperature?

How many were there listening?Where your meeting?How Jesus audio voice? there are other competing sounds? What you smell? there are animals near by?

And finally, ask yourself these questions emotions into characters. What emotion has Jesus? How he shows what? what's happening with listeners? there are some smiling and other frowning? What does stir your emotions this?

Can't answer all these questions, but you can answer many of them; And in response to these types of questions will help really around the text, and also helping others experience the text.

Might have wondered "what difference does this stuff?"This is a good question. Let me say that I preached a sermon once enriched by my knowledge of the extent of desert that Jesus was "driven" by the Holy Ghost; The terrain was to downward. talk on how Jesus was driven in a territory that was to be downwards to a dead sea? can help someone who feels like were shipped within a desert by God, but not limited to, a desert, but one is down?

After doing this improve the analysis again, and you are now ready to begin building your sermon.







Saturday, October 16, 2010

How to practice sermon-lessons from Trumpet playing


I have private lessons on Trumpet for a few years ago while growing up. I remember that I had to practice playing the Trumpet between 30 minutes and 1 hour daily. Then sometimes I would like to add another 30 minutes time composition. How did you pass these 30 minutes?

Fundamentals of music

Well my practice the rudiments of music such as scales and arpeggios (chords). I also spent some time in improvisation. Moreover, I spent time playing exercises. These exercises slowly get harder as I mastered them.Then there was a GameTime songs once I had for a few exercises for breath also improving breath control and power. All these things have helped to make me a better player trumpet and a better musician.

The other day I realized that I spent much more time for practice of Trumpet from inculcated sermon.It is true that I spend some time preparing sermon, but then it is most comparable over time my composition from my schedule.One might ask whether this practice is essential and that one should depend on the spirit of such things would I tend to disagree because my practice even when I was playing in the Church to the glory of God; I practice even when I don't have a program to play. I just practice.

Improving the presentation sermon by practicing

I started thinking about how to improve my presentation sermonic if I tried to "practice" my sermon just as I practice my Trumpet. I must say that often practice my sermon on any particular sermon my practical training, but more than simply Trumpet included the piece of music that I play. Contained the fundamentals and other elements of musicianship. As a result of this first had to think about how such a practice would look like session.

First we need some rudiments of sermon. Here we may practice the presentation theological concepts and book excerpts. For example, in the Church America African concept of "God's Goodness" often referred to as "God is good all the time and all God Time Is Good!" "Work experience" this presentation would include work experience concept sermon in different ways.Consider the sermon of the concept in a State funeral.How do I display what texts I Now consider sermon? concept at a commemoration 9-11. Is it possible? We can do this? Should we do?Certainly the show would have been different.

Scales the sermon

In addition to these basic concepts theological (Henry Mitchell's Soul theology provides 10 for the Church of American) should also memorize scripts.Why not consider fundamental texts that make sense for your community.In the Bible Original African America there are 101 texts that are important to African Americans.These texts could be a good starting point to have memorized and they are ready. These are the key elements of the sermon on the African American Community.

Improvisation and sermon

About improvisation.Take the basics and improvisation.Evans Crawford talks about riffing on Trombones by James Weldon Johnson book God. Why does not start with one of them and then get it in a different direction, then about how having a text and it takes you to a different direction. preach the text and then preach a sermon.

Playing songs and exercises in sermon

The equivalent of playing songs will read sermons and "preach."One can practice lectured by others and your own sermons. Follow the text closely in practice and then improvise over the text.

Such exercises should work on putting together a list of things to try to assist the preacher become more expressive with Pulpit. a good start would be the Jazz sermon by Kirk Byron Jones. This paper provides exercises to help the preacher connect to the underlying fantasy and improvisation.