tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044850704103353185.post-35948200785603117292008-05-05T18:45:00.002-04:002008-05-05T18:45:00.251-04:00Robert Smith is the professor of preaching at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama.<br /><br /><em><strong>Notes from this session:</strong></em><br /><br />- We live in a time of inspired intellectualism (from the neck up - big headed) and empty emotionalism (neck down - beheaded). This is an either / or thing that produces incomplete congregations and incomplete preachers.<br /><br />- The Spirit never operates without or is separated from the Word and vice versa. <br /><br />- The Spirit repeats, reaffirms, and reemphasizes what Jesus said.<br /><br />- Both head and heart are absolutely necessary.<br /><br />- We need to be like honeybees who gather from different flowers to produce their own honey - assimilation, not imitation or parroting<br /><br />- We all stand on someone's shoulders - we take the best and mix it up in our own beehives.<br /><br />- The preacher who brings the same form of sermon every time is like one who dusts plastic flowers instead of cultivating a garden - no surprises, no suspense<br /><br />- Both John the Baptizer's message to Antipas and Nathan's message to David are appropriate and authentic - one is deductive and one is inductive - use both<br /><br />- Fred Craddock "our preaching is not wrong, just too small - it doesn't cover enough ground. Head and heart need to be converted together."<br /><br />- We want truth thought to be married to truth felt and then expressed in truth done.<br /><br />- Our approach to preaching needs to be versatile and needs to vacillate.<br /><br />- Didache is content oriented - designed for information; kerygma is intent oriented - designed for transformation<br /><br />- Brooks "Find the place where truth touches down on life. Not just "what" but "so what" and "now what"<br /><br />- What difference does this word mean on Monday?<br /><br />- Exegetical escort - takes what is in the text out, and ushers people into God's promises - I cannot change them - only God can - like the Law - not intended to change us - couldn't - we needed a Messiah - the Law just showed us our mess<br /><br />- We are exegetical escorts by the Spirit, and dancing is the metaphor<br /><br />- Doxological dancer - my presentation is like John the Baptizer - I am just the voice, pointing to the one - as I lead them, I dance, I point in a way empowered by the Spirit<br /><br />- E. K. Bailey - "exegetical preaching is a message taken from a portion of Scripture in order to render the precise meaning of a text through the power of the Holy Spirit."<br /><br />- The message is taken from Scripture, not my presuppositions or self-interests - let the text say what it says - don't misuse or sanitize the text<br /><br />- Allow the Holy Spirit to first apply the text to your life and then to those who listen to you<br /><br />- The Old and New Testaments are a seamless robe - they speak with one voice<br /><br />- "If I'm going to bleed Mon-Sat, the folks will not be spared on Sunday morning"<br /><br />- Our job is to help people see what they cannot see in Scripture - we must open the text with such faithfulness to the text and such sensitivity to the people<br /><br />- You cannot be prophetic without being pastoral<br /><br />- Greidanus' 10 steps from text to sermon:<br />1. Take and give a text based on congregational spiritual needs (not felt needs)<br />2. Read and reread the text in its literary setting - read it 50 times - all five senses are clothed with the text (John 18:18 and 21:9 - charcoal fire - Peter was under conviction before Jesus asked him a question) - then you will see things you did not see before<br />3. Outline the structure of the text<br />4. Interpret the text in its literary context<br />5. Formulate the text's theme and goal - what does it want to accomplish? (Could be proclamation to initiate people into the faith - salvation, instruction of others about the faith - discipleship, etc) Theme - what is it all about?<br />6. Understand the text in its canonical and redemptive history - how does this look in light of the whole Bible?<br />7. Formulate the theme and goal of the sermon<br />8. Outline the structure of the sermon<br />9. Select a suitable form for the sermon<br />10. Write the sermon in oral style<br /><br />- Prepare your sermon deductively - preach it inductively<br /><br />- Don't have a Mercedes Benz title for a VW sermonWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15311806312162439873noreply@blogger.com