2) Pick a point - what are you trying to say?
- Talk planned with the end in mind
- Problem with multiple-point outline talks: no one remembers them all (even the preacher), and doesn't reflect the lives we live in - multiple points typically just go from preacher's notes, to mouth, to thin air, to filing cabinet
- Argument is that multiple points isn't the most effective way... it can still be good. However, typically the outcome is from the final point that inspires people to action and life change. Why not gear the entire sermon around that then?
- Knowing the one point is refusing to get up and talk before you can answer these two questions:
1 -What is the one thing I want my audience to know?
2 - What do I want them to do about it?
- The process for developing a one-point message:
1 - Dig until you find it - the one thing usually appears late in the prepartion process, because during preparation is when we find out what the text says and doesn't say (expository preaching) and then bridging the text with experience
Never input your ideas upon a text that the text didn't mean to say
2 - Build everything around it - once you find the one point, to go back and oriented your message around the one point (more in next chapter)
3 - Make it stick -need to craft a single statement or phrase that is memorable (the phrase that pays) to be used as your anchor
- Charles Stanley: You need to have a burden. If you don't have a burden it's a lot of fluff.
- Again, the aim is to work WITH the Holy Spirit to communicate the most effective way we can to allow Him the most opportunities to change people's hearts
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