Saturday, August 27, 2005
In all the good evangelical books and teachers on the topic of preaching, you'll pick up the sense that in addition to having three point outlines that all start with the same letter (you are allowed to have more than three points in your outline as long as the starting letter of each point combines into a word like: BLESSED, HOPE, or maybe LAME SERMON), it's always good to make reference to greek word roots.
One other really popular tool is to count the number of times a given word or topic is mentioned in the Bible. If something is mentioned a lot, it must be important to God . . . at least, that's the rationale. O.k., so why doesn't the following normally come up in good evangelical sermons?
The Bible contains more than 300 verses on the poor, social justice, and God's deep concern for both.
Don't believe it? Go
here for a sampling.
Thanks to
Rudy Carasco for the link.
