One More Way to Outline a Sermon
By Brandon Cox
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Adrian Rogers outlined sermons using FOUR phrases:
- Hey You! (Get the audience’s attention)
- Look! (Examine the Scriptures)
- See! (Explain the passage)
- Do! (Make application)
- **ENGAGE your audience: Do an ACTIVITY — it is to MOVE PEOPLE!
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Andy Stanley is famous for one-point preaching, but really breaks his messages into five movements:
- Me (How do I struggle with this?) story
- We (How do we all struggle with this?) reality
- God (What does the Bible say about this?) scripture
- You (What should you do about this?) personalizing it
- We (How can we all live this out together?) in and for the community
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And I’m not sure who came up with it, but another well-known system is:
- Hook (Get attention)
- Book (Examine the Word)
- Look (Expound the passage)
- Took (Make an appeal)
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Lately, I’ve been outlining my messages around three movements [according to the author of this article,
Brandon Cox]:
1) WHERE WE ARE
In the first part of the message, I speak about the problem or issue that the message addresses, hopefully in a way that motivates my hearers to identify with the problem personally as in, “Oh yeah, I struggle with that too!”
2) WHAT GOD SAYS
In the middle part (the longer part), I dig into the passage, or sometimes several passages, that address the issue, provide a historical context and expound on the meaning. Sometimes there are three or for “points” here, but not always.
3) WHAT’S NEXT?
Finally, I move to how we need to live out the solution that God’s Word has provided. I try to be as concrete as possible such as challenging people to go sign up for a ministry, buy a particular book, talk to their next door neighbor, etc.
I’ll probably tweak and change it up again soon, but for now, this system works quite well for me right now [BRANDON COX].
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