MI-322 Expository Preaching

Let the text, not the preacher, decide what the sermon says. Learn a clear eight-step method for preaching that explains a Bible passage, and plan a series through a book of the Bible.

Following Expository Preaching, this course teaches one method of expository preaching in eight steps. You discover a passage's subject, narrow it to a theme and write a proposition of the type the text requires. Then you develop, illustrate and complete the sermon. You also plan a series through a book of the Bible, so that a church learns to read its Bible and meets the hard texts as well as the familiar ones.

What you will study

• The mandate of the pulpit, and three forms of preaching
• The five essentials of an expository sermon
• Discovering the subject of a passage
• Narrowing the subject to a theme
• Writing the proposition: duty, ability or evaluation
• Grace before demand: the theology of the proposition
• Developing subpoints, with application under every main point
• Planning a series through a book for your congregation

Course materials

• Expository Preaching, a WWES textbook
• The Bible