How to Prepare Sermons

This is a simple Steps of how to prepare a Sermon.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Bible, Scratch Paper, Another Paper for Final writing, Bible dictionaries, and a pen!

1. Pray and asked the Holy spirit to guide you as you prepared the Sermon.

2. Think for a moment on what the is/are the needs of the audience.

3. Find your text!

4. Study the text, and asked the following questions:
   What is/are the topic/theme of the verse?
   Who is the speaker and the reader?
   When did the speaker spoke the verse (the background of the text and the situation/s behind the scene)
   Where did story takes place?
   How does the story communicates to you!

5. After that step, think of Title.

6. Make a proposition, for example if the title is Loyalty, proposition could be, How to be loyal? Or what is loyalty?

7. Make now the body of the sermons where you will answer the proposition.

8. After having the body, make a Conclusions of your sermon.

9. Make an application statement, answering the question, how?

10. Make a draft first of your sermon following this Format:
    Title:
    Text:
    Introduction:
    Proposition:
    Body:
    Conclusion:
    Application:

11. Finalize your sermon, and practice preaching it.

Tips & Warnings

• Begin a very simple topic that is very relevant in the needs of the audience.
• Do not forget to pray!

[static404]

on 9/4/2009 Well done article on preparing sermons. I think your first step is the most important...rely on the Holy Spirit. Good job.

[complexcee]

on 8/21/2009 Great tips! One of my favorite place to go for sermon outlines and ideas is preachit.org - It's pretty cool because you can search within the text, search authors, search bible books or even by topic. God Bless!