Preparing Sermons, Part 09

How to Principlize the Text & Find Good Applications(Narrative)

Time: 85 Minutes
Date: 2011-07-25
Logos Version: 4 (compatible with all versions of Logos)

Passage: Luke 10:25-37
Pre-Work: You have studied a Passage and know what it means.
PRINCIPLIZING THE TEXT
Step 1: Identify the Major theme of the passage
Step 2: Identify the Subject/topic of the passage (morphology can help sometimes)
Step 3: Identify the Action
Step 4: Identify the effect/result/purpose
Step 5: Choose the direction of the application (man to God, man to man)
Step 6: Create the application formula (subject + action + effect)
Step 7: Generalize the Subject, Action, effect/result/purpose from steps 2-4
Step 8: Write and refine the principle
Step 9: Two Important tests
Step 10: Practical guidelines

FINDING GOOD APPLICATIONS
Step 1: Using the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Cross Reference
Step 2: Find a Proverb: Create & Search a collection
Step 3: Search a Collection of Devotions: devotions and application commentaries
Step 4: Topic Search: Examine your topic results for additional ideas
Step 5: Other Sermons: Sermon Audio, Sermon Central, Sermon.Logos.com

Last note, placement of the application in the Sermon * Must follow directly after the exposition
* Use “we” instead of “you”
* Must be rooted and clearly anchored to the Biblical text
* Distinguish between Unbeliever/Believer
* Distinguish between justification/sanctification
* Don’t moralize/Don't Lecture