Truth Applied: Application in Preaching (Biblia.com)

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Many a preacher, having been given little or no warning that the way of application runs through rough terrain, has stubbed his toes on the rock of application. Too often, a sermon founders on a preacher’s failure to make a good connection between a message originally delivered to God’s people millennia ago and the congregation in the here and now. Jay Adams has long been concerned for the art...

and the elements in the situation to which God applied it. With both in hand, you will be able to apply the passage to life today in a way that approximates it in its essential particulars. A passage is not rightly interpreted until it is rightly applied. Interpretation is not merely what God meant in the specific biblical instance to which a principle was first applied; it also includes the application of the general principle, applied now. It is doubtful that an interpreter understands any given

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