As you develop your proposition, keep in mind what is happening. Because you have been called as a preacher to speak “Thus saith the Lord,” you have analyzed a text of Scripture in order to know the mind of the Holy Spirit and discover precisely what God has said. Then, you capsulized your discovery in one concise, yet thorough, statement we’ve called the CIT. At this point in the process you’re not coming up with a new statement, but rather transferring your CIT into the here and now in order to
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