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Aim:

Missional Preaching – strategic preaching that pierces hearts, inspires personal conversion to Jesus, unleashes missionary disciples, and helps the entire parish break out of maintenance to ignite the world through the power of the Gospel.

Reading:

Me (Orientation):

Goals — Capture attention, establish connection, introduce tension

Strategy — Personal stories

We (Identification):

Goals — Help audience to feel emotionally engaged in the message.

Strategy — Create further tension. Hone in on central difficulties of the audience. Propose the problem at the center of the difficulty.

Problem —

God (Illumination):

Goals — Use scripture to illuminate the truth that solves the problem you proposed in ME and WE sections.

Strategy — Give the context behind the scripture passage. Paint a vivid picture. Distill the truth/ main idea into the sticky statement.

Solution —

Sticky statement —

You (Application):

Goals — Apply message and give them something to do.

Strategy — Answer questions “so what?” and “what now?”. Maybe a testimony of someone having already answered to call to action.

So what?

Why does the idea matter to them specifically?

Strategy — Make explicit and obvious what is implicit in the sticky statement

Now what?

A common single action to live the Gospel by for the seekers, stumblers, and saints

We (Inspiration):

Goals — Inspire them to action.

Strategy — Create a moving vision of the future if everyone answered the call to action. Imagine if ...