Exegesis
- Familiarity
- Basic outline
- Cross-refences and Literary clues
- Commentators and checking some of the Greek
Preparation
- Gospel check
- Announcement about who or what Jesus is?
- Which part of Jesus' story?
- Part of the declaration of personal salvation?
- Theology check
- How does it reflect the wider themes of the book?
- What topics that come up in this passage?
- Theological Toolbox (Things I want my congregation to have)
- (Doctrine as a concept) "The Scope and Character of Scripture" - Athanasius
- Meta-narrative = the bible tells one big coherent story
- Basic knowledge of various doctrines (TULIP and five Solas)
- Philosophy check
- Situational
- What's my cultural situation, and how does the text speak to it?
- SOUL
- Western Culture
- What's the text's cultural situation, and how has God spoken into it?
- Normative
- Is there something to learn, understand or integrate into my worldview?
- Impossible application check
- Existential
- What does this passage tell me to do across the kitchen sink?
- Possible application check
- Are my emotional reactions valid?
- Preaching proposition
- I want my congregation to ... because of ...
Preaching
- Nomenclature
- Dealing with tangents "But don't get me wrong .."
- Multiple connected secondary applications "not only ... but ..."
- Putting each main idea or sub-point into a sentence
- Assembly
- Trajectory
- Where am I going with this and have I shown how I'm getting there?
- Lowry's loop
- What's the opposition?
- Were does it turn?
- Do my illustrations, quotes and cross references help or hinder this?
- Do I begin strongly?
- Do I conclude dramatically?
- Delivery
- Practice
- Control gestures
Comments, advice, questions or plans of your own? (I'd be particularly interested in nomenclature suggestions, one's you've heard or your own that you don't mind sharing!)