Expository Preaching II
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Preach as if the unbeliever is present.
Outside the Sunday morning setting.
What is an expository sermon
Big Idea
Text driven
Intro: Contemporary hook and proposition
Body of the message
Conclusion
Indicative / Imperative
Done/Do
Indicative: it is all done for us in Christ. Law/Gospel.
Imperative: How do we respond to this? What are we to do now?
Sermon Prep
Exegesis Homilitical outline
Descriptive Outline Prescriptive outline
(teaching outline) (Preaching outline)
Example
Descriptive The Magi was on a journey to worship
Prescriptive Everyone is on a spiritual journey
What did the author say?
What did the author mean?
What does this mean for us today?
Prescriptive preaching answers the “So What?” question.
What is the timeless truth here? AND What does it have to do for me?
What is transformative in the text?
The outline of the sermon can be proscriptive.