Untitled Sermon

PROPOSED TEXT

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HISTORICAL/CULTURAL SETTING

What is the literary context?

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Historical Consideration

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General Initial Reading Thoughts

Repeated or Unique Word(s) or Phrase(s) / Verse / Meaning

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Who wrote the book (any pertinent details)?

What was the background of the author?

Where was he when he wrote the book?

What was the geographical/topographical setting?

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What caused the writing of this book/letter?

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What is the primary point of the passage? Central Idea of the Text?

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How does this passage support the c.i.t. of the book?

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Why is the writer penning this? What is the underlying purpose?

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What does the writer want the recipients to do because of this writing? How does he want them to respond?

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Broader Context Notes

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Text Type / Genre

What is the literary genre?

OT Law

OT Narrative

Hebrew Poetry

Prophetic

Gospel

NT History

Epistles

Acts

Apocalyptic

What is the text type?

Discourse

Narrative

Poetry

If Discourse:

What grammatical relationships are evident?

What are the key verbs?

What transitional/connector words or phrases exist?

If Narrative:

What is the Setting?

What is the Conflict?

What is the Climax?

What is the Resolution?

What is the New Setting?

If Gospel Narrative:

What common string is evident in the broader context?

What does this small story tell us about Jesus?

If Poetry:

What type of parallelism exists?

What would this have meant to the original audience?

Outlining Work

Pillar's Outline of the Chapter

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Expositor's Outline of the Chapter

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Garland's Outline of the Chapter

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Textual Outline

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Commentary Study

Commentary of the New on the Old Testament

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Commentary Notes #1

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Forming the Sermon Work:

Key Issue in this Section (main idea of the text)

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What practical difference did this teaching make to the author's readers and should to us too?

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How does the text point to Christ, and how does his salvation help us change in line with the pastoral aim?

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My Proposed Outline Breakdown

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What is the Christological Emphasis? (the gospel understanding)

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Gospel Consideration

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Cross Reference(s)

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Application Work

What is the positive in all of this so you are not telling people off?

What is the theme of your message, Max?

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What is the general principle that would be applicable to all?

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What is your proposition?

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What must be true for the application to be consistent?

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What would be common applications today?

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Why is this so seldom practiced today?

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What does this mean for the common attender who is not engaged in something so dramatic?

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NIVAC Application Thoughts

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Application Outline:

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Application Legend: (Dever Application Grid)

Unique Salvation History—What about the passage is important for the way God unfolds his plan of salvation in history? What‘s unrepeatable by us but worthy of worshipping God for or needing further explanation?

Non-Christian—How does the passage speak to the unbeliever? How does it call him/her to repentance and belief? How does it warn, rebuke, correct, or prod the unbeliever? What does it say about the danger of the unbeliever‘s situation, the exclusivity of Christ, the sinner‘s need for a Savior, or the sufficiency of that Savior as a substitute for the sinner?

Public—What does the passage say about our lives and roles in the public sphere, both as Christians and non-Christians (e.g. government, neighborhood)?

Christ—How is Jesus foreshadowed or typed? What particular perfection of Christ does that type

depict? How is Jesus remembered or described in character, authority, glory, or essence?

Unity in Diversity—How does this passage demonstrate the unity that we have in Christ? How does it reflect the diversity of the body?

Work—What does this passage say to the employee and employer?

Gender/Marriage/Family—How does the passage speak to men? How does the passage speak to

women? How does this passage apply to the husband and wife and how does this apply to the family?

Individual Christian—What does the passage mean for the life of the individual Christian? How does it call him/her to deeper repentance and belief? How does it warn, rebuke, correct, motivate, comfort or encourage the Christian?

Your Local Church—What does the passage mean for the corporate life of our local church? How

does it call the local corporate body to tend to its corporate life together and corporate witness to the unbelieving community around it?

Final Outline:

Point

Explanation

Application

Illustration

Recap/Transition

1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV 1900

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2 KJV 1900

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV 1900

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:3 KJV 1900

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV 1900

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV 1900

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV 1900

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:8 KJV 1900

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV 1900

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV 1900

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.