Lately I’ve been trying to figure out how to write a sermon correctly, such as the exegesis, application, imagery, and presentation of the gospel. Last week, I spent the majority of my time figuring out how to present the gospel. And, I believe that I was successful doing so in this sermon as well.

And so, I applied a very similar approach that I did in last week’s sermon in preparation for this week’s sermon. I could tell at least from my perspective that I achieved the goal of preaching, which is the conviction of sin and our need for Jesus to save us.

There was a part of me that felt like I had broken down the correct preaching into a formula that when I followed these steps and procedures, the outcome is powerful preaching. However, that goes directly against this concept of grace that I was preaching in this sermon. That any good that I do, is not by my power, but God’s alone. And the same goes for preaching.

Now that doesn’t mean that it is prideful to say that I know what elements and parts are needed for powerful preaching, because they act as guidelines to help me prepare my sermons. And yet, what I have to recognize, is that the very procedures that I’ve discovered to preaching, that in of itself is by the grace of God.

So, moving forward, I am going to continue to apply the procedures that I have followed to prepare my sermons, while at the same time maintaining a view that powerful preaching is purely by God’s grace, and not by my procedures.

Thank you for reading my reflections about my sermons, and God bless you!

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