• Propositions are the main points of the sermon. Ideas reign! Garrison Keillor once said that literate preachers take a biblical story, stick the story in a corner, and give a lecture on the story. He said this in answer to the question, “Why do you say that sermons are boring?” • Sermons are analytical in nature. This grows out of the practice of an analytical approach to Scripture. • Literate sermons involve left-brain communication. • They use metaphors of illustration, as defined in the previous
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