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Truth Applied: Application in Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

Of all the aspects of applicatory preaching, perhaps the principle that the whole sermon is application is most apparent in its organization. Of course, the outline of a message (unless it contains something of significance to the congregation) exists for the benefit of the preacher. Its function is to keep him on course, to aid his memory, and preserve the message in a retrievable form for possible later use. Therefore, the outline should not be announced.1 It is in the message
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