A CASE FOR THE ONE-POINT EXPOSITORY SERMON
JIM L. WILSON, R. GREGG WATSON,
MICHAEL KUYKENDALL, & DAVID JOHNSON
Impact Preaching: A Case for the One-Point Expository Sermon
© 2018 by Jim L. Wilson, Gregg Watson, R. Michael Kuykendall, and David Johnson
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Print ISBN 9781683592105
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Cover design: Frank Gutbrod
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Students
at Gateway Seminary
Part 1: Understanding Impact Preaching
Chapter 2: How Movements Function in a Narrative
Chapter 3: Transformation: Preaching That Changes Lives
Part 2: Developing High Impact Sermons
Chapter 4: Old Testament Narrative Episodes
Chapter 5: Narrative Episodes from the Former Prophets
Chapter 8: Narrative Episodes from the Gospels and Acts
The student sat in front of his homiletics professor and asked, “Prof, how many points should a sermon have?” To which the professor responded immediately: “At least one.”
The correct answer is “exactly one.” While sermons can and should offer multiple insights about the particular biblical text being preached, there should be only one core idea, lest the sermon wander off in multiple directions. We can have many so-called points in our messages, but there should be one point that forms the basis around which the entire sermon is grown.
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About Impact Preaching: A Case for the One-Point Expository SermonThis comprehensive and engaging manual aids preachers in keeping the transformative meaning and impact of the biblical text intact through all hermeneutical and homiletical processes. While this approach applies to all sermon structures, the book focuses on the less familiar one-point expository message rather than the more common three-point sermon, or verse-by-verse approach. Drawing upon the strengths of their backgrounds as homiletic and biblical studies professors, the authors help the reader identify which biblical texts fit the one-point expository sermon structure, explain how to develop the sermons, and provide sermon samples that illustrate the approach. The authors explore the features of each major literary genre and how it helps to shape the sermon. With their shared expertise in biblical studies and homiletics, they offer a book brimming with insights and usefulness. |
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