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Homiletics

The Science of Preaching

Teacher's Manual

Homiletics

Contents

Note to Instructor.......................................................3 Lesson 1 ? Introduction to Homiletics...........................4-8 Lesson 2 ? Biblical Words associated with Preaching......9-14 Lesson 3-4 ? Feeding the Flock.................................15-23 Lesson 5 ? The Preacher.........................................24-28 Lesson 6 ? The Purpose of Preaching.........................29-34 Lesson 7 ? Types of Sermons....................................35-43 Lesson 8-9 ? Choosing a Topic/Text...........................44-51 Lesson 10 ? Researching the Topic/Text.....................52-56 Lesson 11 ? Developing Principles from Research.........57-62 Lesson 12 ? The Thematic Statement.........................63-67 Lesson 13 ? Constructing an Outline..........................68-73 Lesson 14 ? Beginning the Sermon............................74-79 Lesson 15 ? Concluding the Sermon...........................80-85 Lesson 16 ? Titling the Sermon.................................86-90 Lesson 17 ? Illustrating the Sermon...........................91-97 Lesson 18 ? Tips for Delivery of the Sermon...............98-101 Sermon Evaluation Form................................................102

Session 19-36 ? Giving and Evaluation of Sermons

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Note to Instructor

The Homiletics course is most valuable when preceded by the course titled Speech Communication. The course in Homiletics is designed to be a course 36 sessions in length where the student's primary mode of learning is through practicing what is being taught. The first half of the course focuses on instruction, the rest of the course focuses on the giving of sermons. This course is designed for each student to give a total of three to five speeches or sermons. Some of this will be affected by the number of students in each class. Each of these sermons is to be evaluated by the teacher with the evaluation form at the end of the notes. To maximize the value if the experience it is essential that the instructor meet briefly with the students to discuss each sermon. If at all possible, the last two sermons should be video recorded so that the students can see themselves and do an evaluation of their own sermons.

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Lesson 1 Introduction to Homiletics

I. What is the definition of the word "Homiletics"?

A. The English word "homiletics" is most often defined as the "science or art of preaching."

"The branch of rhetoric that treats the composition and delivery of sermons" --Funk & Wagnalls

"The art of preaching, so far as this is an art; sacred eloquence; the method of addressing an audience on the highest subjects which, with the Divine blessing, is most likely to affect the consciences, the hearts and the intellect of the hearers."

--The New International Dictionary, 1901

"Homiletics is the study of the composition and delivery of a sermon or other

religious discourse. It includes all forms of preaching, viz., the sermon, homily

and catechetical instruction."

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Wikipedia

B. The Greek word from which the English word is derived sheds additional light on the meaning.

1. There are three Greek words that form a basis of our English word "homiletics."

a. Homiletikos (from Homileo) which means "to be in company with, to impart insights through sharing common time together."

b. Homilia which means "communion and conversation".

c. Homilos which is composed of homos meaning "same" and ilos meaning "crowd."

2. These three Greek words can be summarized to define Homiletics as "sharing insights through conversation with a crowd."

Discussion Question: Why is it different speaking to a crowd as opposed to speaking to an individual one on one?

"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis." ?Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969

II. What are some notable quotes regarding the subject of homiletics or preaching?

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"Preaching is, in one regard, like bringing up children; we know all about it until we have to do it; then we know nothing." --George Buttrich, Jesus Came Preaching

Illustration: Teaching on Child Rearing moving from commandments, to tips, to suggestions to abandoning teaching altogether.

"To the end of time, preaching can only be an embarrassed stammering. Do not call it difficult, therefore; call it impossible."

--A.C. Craig, Preaching in a Scientific Age, 1954

Ask Class: What do you think that A.C. Craig was trying to communicate?

"Preaching is an art, and in this, as in all other arts, the bad performers far outnumber

the good."

--Aldous Huxley, The Devils of London, 1952

"True Christian preaching is...a proclamation which claims to be the call of God through the mouth of man and, as the word of authority, demands belief."

--Rudolph Bultmann, Religion and Culture, 1959

"Among all the duties of the pastor after justice and life, holy preaching is the most

praised."

--John Wycliff, The Pastoral Office, 1378

"It is our duty to bark in the house of the Lord." --A medieval preacher's saying

III. Why should we study the subject of homiletics?

A. Because preaching is God's means of bringing the world to Christ (I Cor. 1:1825).

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks, foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

21 Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb--preaching, of all things!--to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation. ?Msg

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