Digital Logos Edition
Who should take a course on Homiletics? Homiletics is the study of preparing and preaching biblical messages. For sure, all pastors, evangelists, and missionaries should study Homiletics. Sometimes we think that the only preachers are ministers who stand behind pulpits. But Acts 8:1-4 states that all the believers “who had been scattered” from Jerusalem “preached the word wherever they went.” So all believers may preach or declare the Word of God. In secondary school and college, many students study how to prepare a speech. Likewise, in the church, many laymen should learn to prepare a biblical message. God opens doors for those who prepare. Many laymen preach the Word in prisons, schools, homes, churches, and other places. This is a “how-to-do-it” course. We will teach you to prepare and preach biblical messages with the Five-Step Method. One great teacher taught Homiletics for more than 40 years. He said the Five-Step Method was the easiest, yet most powerful method he had ever seen for planning a sermon. The Five Steps are: The Introduction, The Problem, The Solution, The Result, and The Invitation. We will teach you how to create each of these parts of a sermon. And we will teach you how to find, file, and use illustrations so people will pay attention, enjoy, and accept your messages. Above all, we will emphasize the importance of the preacher himself-his character, message, delivery, and anointing. The person is always more important than the method. People's lives are changed when the Holy Spirit anoints a godly person to preach a biblical message.