![]() ![]() ![]() However, the art of preaching is in discerning which details to actually present to your congregation in a Sunday morning sermon. You must cross-reference, outline, look up the original languages, make observation after observation, and more if you want to get to the meaning of the text you are teaching. In your Bible study leading up to a preaching or teaching, you must dig into any and all details contained in your text. As a Bible-teacher or preacher, you must go into a great level of detail in your analysis when preparing a sermon. Now, I want to make an important distinction before going on. Listeners spend so much time trying to keep track of the many details you are giving rather than meditating on the main point of the text. Sermons that are over-stuffed end up becoming less clear to the congregation. These are sermons that are Biblical, sound, but try to communicate too much information in the allotted time slot. ![]() This tendency leads to what I will call “over-stuffed” sermons. There is an unfortunate tendency to equate a good, Biblical sermon with how many details a preacher or teacher gives. But I have found very little concrete guidance for how to discern what parts of a sermon to keep, and what to edit out. There are dozens of great resources for how to write better sermons, how to outline, how to write sermon application. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that it is very hard to find actual guidance on how to trim down a sermon. Cutting down a sermon is incredibly difficult. For me, the hardest part of preparing a teaching or sermon is figuring out what information to leave out. ![]()
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