A Course In HOMILETICS I & II, STUDIES IN Prepared by the Committee on Religious Education of the American Bible College Pineland, Florida 33945 1 A COURSE IN HOMILETICS I & II, STUDIES IN Prepared by the Committee on Religious Education of the AMERICAN BIBLE COLLEGE Pineland, Florida 33945 2 INTRODUCTION HOMILETICS ― ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BIBLICAL PRESENTATION Public Speaking is secular training for speech The American Bible College is greatly indebted to delivery. Homiletics differs in that its main focus is Dr. Phil Stringer for his gracious permission to use his upon the Word of God. Homiletics involves both lectures on homiletics for this course. Dr. Stringer is preaching and teaching. The gift of pasturing involves both an outstanding preacher and Bible scholar. It is both. However, homiletics is not limited to pasturing. It our prayer that our Lord Jesus will continue to use Dr. also should be utilized in mission work, school Stringer and his varied ministries for His honor and teaching, evangelism and everyday communication. glory. Hence, laypersons as well as professional church workers should know the basics in this art of communication. 3 HOMILETICS I, BIBLICAL PRESENTATION Table of Contents LECTURE PAGE 1 - The Call to Preach - 5 2 - Types of Sermons - 8 3 - The Sermon Outline - 9 4 - The Theme and the Title - 10 5 - The Introduction - 11 6 - The Main Body - 12 7 - The Conclusion and the Invitation - 13 8 - Gathering Sermon Material - 14 9 - Illustrations - 16 10 - Sermon Preparation - 18 11 - Homiletic Devices - 20 12 - Sermon Delivery - 21 13 - The Personal Testimony Sermon - 22 14 - The Textual Sermon - 23 15 - The Expository Sermon - 23 16 - The Biographical Sermon - 25 17 - The Exegetical Sermon - 25 18 - The Word Study Sermon - 26 19 - The Biblical Incident Sermon - 27 20 - The Topical Sermon - 27 21 - The Historical Incident Sermon - 28 22 - Preparing the Room, the People and Yourself - 29 23 - Your Voice Projection - 31 24 - The Sin of Being Uninteresting - 32 25 - Preaching to Special Audiences - 34 26 - Preaching and Prayer - 35 27 - Preaching inThe Power of the Holy Spirit - 35 28 - A Synopsis of Sermon Preparation - 36 4 1lI. ORDINATION HOMILETICS I A. A genuine call to preach will be recognized by others. B. When a local church recognizes the gift of LECTURE ONE: THE CALL TO PREACH preaching, it is called ordination, Titus 1:5. "With its preaching, Christianity stands or falls." ~ ~ P. T. Forsyth ~ ~ IV. A GENUINE CALL STILL HAS TO BE "The pulpit is the center of the world." CULTIVATED ~ ~ The Sermon Doctor ~ ~ Moses was very uneasy about his speaking, Ex. 6: "In every generation, the church as a whole is the 12; 17:1, but he became a very effective speaker when product of the pulpit ministry, i.e. it is possible to judge ordained by God, Acts 7:22. the quality of the preaching by the spiritual life of 'the people."' V. THE IMPORTANCE OF PREACHING ~ ~Bob Jones Jr., p. 7 Ancient Truths for Modern "In every age of Christianity, since John the Baptist Days ~ ~ drew crowds into the desert, there has been no great religious movement, no restoration of Scriptural truth, I. DEFINITION OF HOMILETICS and reanimation of genuine piety, without new power Homiletics is the science, of which preaching is the in preaching both as cause and effect." art, and the sermon is the product. There are 221 ~ ~ John Broadus ~ ~ references to preaching in the New Testament—37 "Decline of spiritual life activity in the churches is different Greek verbs. commonly accompanied by a lifeless, formal, unfruitful preaching, and this partly as cause, partly as II. THE CALL TO PREACH IS NOT THE SAME AS effect. On the other hand, the great revivals of THE CALL THAT A PROPHET OR APOSTLE Christian history can most usually be traced to the RECEIVES work of the pulpit." ~ ~ E.C. Dargan ~ ~ Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones describes the call to preach: "Preaching is the supreme work of the Christian "A call [to preach] generally starts in the form of a minister." ~ ~ G .Campbell Morgan ~ consciousness within one's own spirit, an awareness of ~ a kind of pressure being brought to bear upon one's "The most urgent need in the church today is true spirit, some disturbance in the realm of the spirit, then preaching." ~ ~ Dr. M.L. Jones ~ ~ that your mind is being directed to the whole question "The highest service that men may attain to on earth of preaching. You have not thought of it deliberately, is the preaching of the Word of God." you have not sat down in cold blood to consider ~ ~ John Wycliffe ~ ~ possibilities, and then, having looked at several have "Preaching is the thing the devil hath wrestled most decided to take this up. It is not that. This is something against." ~ ~ Hugh Latimer ~ ~ that happens to you; it is God dealing with you, and " ... It being observed in England that those who hold God acting upon you by His Spirit; it is something you the helm of the pulpit always stir people's hearts as become aware of rather than what you do. It is thrust they please." ~ ~ Thomas Fuller ~ ~ upon you, it is presented to you and almost forced upon "He will not fail to note that the preacher's message you constantly in this way." and the Church's spiritual condition have risen or fallen A. The call to preach is based on an inward together. When life has gone out of the preacher it is prompting of the Holy Spirit, not an objective not long before it has gone out of the Church also. On revelation. the other hand, when there has been a revival message B. The call to preach is a gift, Eph. 4:11. of life on the preacher's lips there comes as a C. The call is different for everyone—"it is easier consequence a revived condition of the Church itself. felt than telt." The connection between these two things has been "No man can define or describe for another man the close, uniform, constant." ~ ~ John Brown ~ ~ likeness and fashion of the divine vocation" "I argue that in many ways it is the departure of the ~ ~ J.H. Jowett ~ ~ Church from [inspired] preaching that is responsible in D. It is a call to a life, not to a profession or a career! a large measure for the state of modern society. The Church has been trying to preach morality and ethics 5 without the Gospel as a basis; it has been preaching preach the gospel of1, preach the gospel to2, preach the morality without godliness; and it simply does not gospel unto2, preach unto2, be preached2, be preached work. It never has done, and it will never will. And the by the gospel1, be preached3, have the gospel preached result is that the Church, having abandoned her real to one1, the gospel is preached1, the gospel is preached task, has left humanity more or less to its own devices." to1, the gospel is preached unto1.] ~ ~ Martyn Lloyd Jones ~ ~ - Matthew 11:5; Luke 4:18; 7:22; Acts 8:25; Romans 1:15; 10:15; 15:20; I Corinthians 1:17; 9:16 VI. GREEK WORDS USED IN THE NEW TEST- 5. Kêrussô = to herald, proclaim, summon - to AMENT—FOR PREACHING (see following list) herald, proclaim, publish, announce [It is translated: bid1, command24, give commandment1, at one’s VII. PREACHING command1.] "Preaching is the art of communicating the message - I Corinthians 1:21, 23; II Corinthians 4:5. "No of God to the heart and lives of the people in a appeal without proclamation; No proclamation without comprehendable manner." ~ ~Stinnett Ballew ~ ~ appeal."' "When we face real people with eternal soul 6. Anaggellô = to carry back tidings, report - to balanced between heaven and hell, the nobility of announce, make known, report, rehearse [It is preaching owes us even as it underscores our translated: declare3, rehearse1, report1, shew, show6, inadequacies. ~ ~ Bryan Chapell ~ ~ speak of1, tell6.] - Acts 14:27; John 16:13-15; I John 1:5; Romans GREEK WORDS USED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 15:21; Acts 16:38; II Corinthians 7:7 FOR PREACHING AND COMMUNICATING WITH 7. Apaggellô = to bring tidings, report, relate - to THEIR KING JAMES TRANSLATIONS bring word, to report, proclaim [It is translated: bring word1, bring word again1, declare3, report2, shew, show [Greek definitions are from, A LEXICON by Liddell to1, shew, show again1, tell26.] and Scott, (Ginn Brothers, Boston, 1871). Elevated - I Thessalonians 1:9; I John 1:2; Acts 26:20; numbers are the number of usage in the K.J.V.] Hebrews 2:12; Luke 8:34 1. Legô = to reckon among, recount, tell, relate - 8. Homileô = to associate with, live together - to preaching as "face-to-face direct-personal speech" [It is converse with, to talk with [It is translated: commune translated: ask1, bid2, boast1, call47, describe1, give out1, together1, commune with1, talk2.] name2, put forth1, say1180, say on1, show1, speak56, - Luke 24:14, 17; Acts 20:11; 24:26 speak of1, tell33, utter1, is to say things3.] 9. Martureô = to bear witness, testify - witness, - John's gospel uses "legô" 266 times - emphasizing preaching as born of experience [It is translated: be the spontaneous character of Jesus' discourse witness2, bear record13, bear witness25, give1, give 2. Laleô = to articulate speech, talk - outward testimony2, give witness1, testify19, witness3, be utterance, speech, talk [It is translated: preach6, say15, witnessed1, be well reported of2, charge1, have good speak241, speak of2, describe1, give out1, name2, put report2, have testimony1, obtain good report2, obtain forth1, say1180, say on1, speak with2, talk12, talk with1, witness1, witness1.] tell11, utter4, things which were to be spoken after1.] - John 1:7-8, 15, 32, 34; 3:26; 5:33; Acts 10:43; - John's gospel uses "laleô" 60 times, not so much 23:11; I Corinthians 15:15 the substance of discourse 10.