1. INTRODUCTORY NOTES FOR
PREACHING

2. Toward An Understanding of Christian Preaching

3.  Christian Preaching is a charismatic
phenomenon wherein a contemporary
proclamation of the Gospel of God is made
with the intent of moving the hearer into an
awareness and acknowledgement of the holy.

4. Developing the Sermon

5.  Theological impressions from which sermons
are born (meditation – question – rationale)
 I am meditating on……because I want to
know……….in order to understand………..

6.  Hermeneutical reflections upon theological
impressions
 Reflections = Pre-critical Critical Post-
Critical

7.  Homiletical basis for sermon
 Foundations = Text Subject Proposition
(Theological Claim) Motivational Objective

8.  Homiletical structuring/flow of sermon
 Deductive - Inductive

9.  Literary ordering of sermon

10. Realizing the Preaching Moment

11.  Presence
 Preaching Persona
 Power
 Preaching Authority and Ability
 Performance
 Preaching Act