As Christ’s body, we must rely on the gifts of others. It is no more right for a preacher to say, “I don’t need to study commentaries and sermons because I have the Holy Spirit,” than it is for a church member to say, “I don’t need to listen to preaching on Sunday because I have the Holy Spirit.” God equips his saints through gifted teachers. This is how God has chosen to equip his church. Preachers must be built up by other pastors and teachers before they build up their congregation. This is not just true for the congregation on Sunday, but it is also true for preachers.
Ephesians 4:11-14 says that God gave pastors and teachers to equip the church for the work of ministry, to help it come to a unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to help it mature, and to protect it from false teaching.
The rest of the notes, outlines, and definitions can be found on our Facebook page.Another reason it is important to study commentaries and sermons is because God has chosen to build his church through the ministry of pastors and teachers.
TEXTUAL SERMON OUTLINE FULL
I am sorry the show notes are incomplete, the website will not allow me to post the full text. Textual Sermons tend to be biblical in their content and in their approach to the Scripture.Textual Sermons allow the sense of the Bible to come through.Textual Sermons are useful when a preacher must deal with a subject that is handled well in a small portion of Scripture.The choice of subjects preached is limited by the preacher’s knowledge, experience, and personal preferences.While the main points are dictated by the text, the sub-points and other supporting materials are left to the whim of the preacher.John 3:16, for instance, says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Some verses are so filled with light and power that they can yield tremendous amounts of teaching and preaching material. Textual Sermons allow rich passages of Scripture to be mined to their fullest.Textual Sermons give the preacher tremendous flexibility in sermon preparation and delivery.Textual sermons are generally easy to prepare.While the passage may dictate the main points, the preacher is able to be very inventive with the sub-points of the sermon.In a Textual Sermon, the actual sense of Scripture is given.The Textual Sermon pays more attention to what an actual text of Scripture teaches about a particular subject than does the Topical Sermon.When a passage of Scripture is handled in a Textual Sermon it may be handled in such a fashion that there is little if any difference between that Textual Sermon and an Expository Sermon.As in the Topical Sermon, the subject of the Textual Sermon the subject of the sermon is usually known before the text is selected.The Textual Sermon takes its subject, its outlines, and some of its content from the text.
While the main divisions of the sermon are dictated by the text, the sub-divisions, and other supporting materials must be obtained from other places in the Bible.Typically, the Textual Sermon will come from a relatively short passage of Scripture.
Like the Topical Sermon, it is built around the subject, but the main divisions of the Textual Sermon are limited to what the text says about the subject. The Textual Sermon derives all its main divisions from the text.