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Study Section 10: Putting it all Together

10.1 Connect

It now time to create a total sermon with a dynamic introduction, a challenging conclusion,
and with real meat in the content of the message. With these ingredients, our people will
certainly desire to listen, be fed God’s Word, and be challenged to alter their lives in
accordance with God’s desires. Today we are going to try to put together all of what you
have been learning to this point. Let’s get started….

10.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to assimilate the information presented in Lessons to follow an
example of a sermon prepared from Acts 1:8.

10.3 Putting it all Together

Using sound principles and methods of hermeneutics and applying the basic skills we’ve
acquired to formulate sermons for a preaching or teaching setting, let’s move from the
text to the sermon by exegeting Acts 1:8 and preparing an expository message for the
people of our day.

EXEGESIS EXPOSITION
HERMENEUTICS HOMILETICS &

I. Exegesis based on good principles and methods of hermeneutics

A. Observation

Recall that observation answers the question, “What do I see?”

Applying skills of observation that were learned in your study of hermeneutics, carefully
examine the details of this text, making note of what you see. Do not concern yourself at this
point with determining what it means. Simply observe. In doing so, you might see some things
that have always been there, but that you haven’t noticed before.

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