The 12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching - Second Edition by Wayne McDill

Author:Wayne McDill [McDill, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: B&H Publishing
Published: 2010-07-19T07:00:00+00:00

The human mind cannot take a steady diet of generals. It craves particulars, those down-to-earth, specific details that make the sermon true to life. This is why the attention of your hearers is suddenly arrested when you begin to draw a word picture or tell a story. There is an automatic control mechanism in the mind that shuts down attention when the hearer gets an overload of generals. You can see it in the eyes, that faraway look that tells you they're not listening.

Development is not all particulars, however. As you enlarge on your sermon divisions, you will make some general assertions. These complementary assertions are still general, even though they seek to enlarge on your sermon points. In our outline on Genesis 3:1–8, the third point was, “Beware the appeal of temptation when the satisfaction of your appetites is promised.” As you explain it, you might say, “Temptation appeals to us at the point of our own desires.” That is a complementary assertion, a general statement in support of your main idea. But it is not a particular. You might use an analogy and say, “When I'm on a diet, broccoli is no temptation; it's the cheesecake and the hot fudge sundaes I crave.” That is particular.

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