Malcolm Cox

S1 Ep208: "How to choose a structure for your lesson". Tuesday Teaching Tip 208, Class 5

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Class 5: How to choose a structure for your lesson. TTT 208

  • Introduction
  • You have chosen your text
  • You have explored it
  • You have mined other resources
  • You have found the point
  • Now you need to choose a structure
  • See also TTT 101 - How to choose a structure for a class
  • See also TTT 97 - How to Find Your Sermon Structure
  • See also - How to Find the structure.
  • First some principles…

    • One of many possible structures 
    Find more than one so you can choose the one that works for this occasion

    Does justice to the passage
    • Helps people remember
    • Can come back to it
    • Points us to God 
    • Rick Warren: God, Father, Jesus, Spirit 

      Look for natural breaks
      • In the text
      • In the action

        • Now let’s look at the text I have chosen….
        • ““So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.” (Malachi 3:5)

        • Conclusion
        • Question: What resources do you have available?
        • Question: How can you make best use of them?

          • Next time: How to start your lesson

          • “One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts.” (Psalm 145:4 NIV11)

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