Preparing Evangelistic Sermons, Updated and Expanded Edition

by Dr. Ramesh P. Richard

Publisher:

Baker

, 2015

Overview

Want a practical method to successfully share the Gospel with others? Learn from Ramesh Richard, a seasoned evangelist, through this simple do-it-yourself guide. Richard provides a proven method of developing an evangelistic message in seven steps that effectively introduces sinners to Jesus. He guides you through the foundation, framework, method, and special issues of preaching salvation. He explains the divine call to Christian proclamation and types of evangelistic ministry. Richard explores relevant issues for pre-evangelistic and evangelistic preaching and ideas for delivering sermons based on text, audience, or topic, to create an invaluable resource for developing effective evangelistic sermons.

Key Features

• Demonstrates the most effective way to communicate the Good News
• Offers practical evangelistic tools for unbeliever-friendly outreaches
• Includes helpful appendices, outlines, and checklists

Contents

• An Overview of Evangelistic Preaching
  • Personal Calling of the Preaching Evangelist
  • Biblical Obligation of the Preaching Evangelist
  • Theological Framework of Evangelistic Preaching
  • Functional Definition of Evangelistic Preaching
• Textual Evangelistic Preaching
  • Integration with the Scripture Sculpture Expository Preaching Process
  • Sources for Textual Evangelistic Preaching
• Topical Evangelistic Preaching
  • Text-Based Topical Evangelistic Preaching
  • Audience-Driven Topical Evangelistic Preaching
• Special Issues in Evangelistic Preaching
  • Support Materials: Illustrating the Evangelistic Sermon
  • The Evangelistic Invitation

Praise for the Print Edition

The clarity, simplicity, and power of Ramesh Richard’s seven-step approach to constructing sermons has well served students and pastors in many settings and nations. Now to have this most approachable method of sermon construction applied to evangelistic preaching is truly good news not only for pastors wanting ready assistance but also for lost souls needing eternal security.

—Bryan Chapell, president, Covenant Theological Seminary

I believe this resource will strengthen your effectiveness as an evangelistic preacher and give you more boldness as you approach your task in the power of the Holy Spirit.

—Daniel Southern, president, American Tract Society

This book is not just a theoretical discussion of evangelistic preaching, but a practical book, filled with ideas all of us can use. I found it refreshing because the author so clearly communicates his own passion and first-hand experience in sharing the Good News.

—Erwin W. Lutzer, senior pastor, The Moody Church

Product Details

• Title: Preparing Evangelistic Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Preaching Salvation
• Author: Ramesh Richard
• Edition: Updated and Expanded
• Publisher: Baker
• Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 272
• Christian Group: Evangelicals
• Resource Type: Monographs
• Topic: Soteriology

About Dr. Ramesh P. Richard

Dr. Ramesh Richard, a member of the Seminary faculty for more than twenty years, is the founder and president of Ramesh Richard Evangelism and Church Health (RREACH), a global proclamation ministry that seeks to evangelize leaders and strengthen pastors of developing economies. He has ministered in over eighty countries, including a role as pulpit pastor of the Delhi Bible Fellowship in New Delhi, India. In concert with Dallas Seminary, RREACH sponsors the Global Proclamation Academy to connect the future leadership of world Christianity. He is also the founder and chair of the Trainers of Pastors International Coalition. His teaching interests include expository preaching and the spiritual life. His research interests include global pastoral training, contemporary world trends, hermeneutics for homiletics, and applied Christian apologetics, with special reference to the uniqueness of the Lord Jesus Christ. in the present.