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CONNECTING THE SERMON TO THE SOUL

CONNECTING THE SERMON TO THE SOUL. Dr. Martin Sanders Life Changing Preaching Conference June 2012. REMEMBER SIMPLE STRUCTURES. A clear sense of the Text Preach the Big Idea Exegete / Dig Out insights Connect your illustrations & narrations directly to the Text Intrinsically motivate.

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CONNECTING THE SERMON TO THE SOUL

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  1. CONNECTING THE SERMON TO THE SOUL Dr. Martin Sanders Life Changing Preaching Conference June 2012

  2. REMEMBER SIMPLE STRUCTURES • A clear sense of the Text • Preach the Big Idea • Exegete / Dig Out insights • Connect your illustrations & narrations directly to the Text • Intrinsically motivate

  3. IDENTIFYING THE SOUL • The other side of “YOU” • The best & the worst of “YOU” • Normative human experiences: the best side & the dark side

  4. THE BEST OF MOTIVATION • Motivational factors for “human” life change • What causes people to change? • Internal Motivation • Preaching for Agreement: Their Story • Make your audience leave saying in their mind, “THAT is what I want.”

  5. EXTRINSIC vs INTRINSIC • Extrinsic = external, imposed, “supposed to” • Motivational Factor: MacGregor Theory X, Y View of People • “Should”, “Must”, “Ought”, “Need To”… • Intrinsic = internal desire, dream, goal; my desired outcome; offers hope and empowerment

  6. EXTRINSIC • Guilt • Shame • Multiple “Shoulds” • Use of Questions

  7. INTRINSIC • Create inner desire • Offer hope, possibilities, courage • Picture a preferred future • Create a “YES” mentality • Access the Spirit’s power and empowerment

  8. OUTCOMES • Motivated People • Life Change Desire • High Level of Trusting God • Partnership with the Holy Spirit

  9. INCORPORATING THE SPIRIT IN PREACHING • Prepare yourself • Prepare your audience • Prepare your leadership • Have clearly defined outcomes: see, sense, hear, feel, be, do • Prepare for response & the Spirit’s release

  10. DEVELOPING YOUR OWN APPROACH • Study – Gifting – Anointing – Welcoming the Spirit (not learned behaviors) • Life long development: skill & soul • Preaching vs. Speaking

  11. CONCLUDING THE SERMON

  12. CONCLUDING THE SERVICE

  13. WHEN JESUS HEALS YOUR LIFE LUKE 7

  14. NARRATIVE OVERVIEW • Woman enters uninvited. • She brings perfume. • At dinner, she begins to weep. • Tears, hair, feet, kiss • Pours perfume on His feet

  15. AN AWKWARD SITUATION • Doesn’t He know who she is? • A classic Jesus story Which one LOVES more?

  16. LUKE 7:44-47 44 Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little."

  17. FORGIVENESS • Offering Release • Receiving Release • Being Released • A sense of Freedom

  18. EXPERIENCING FORGIVENESS • Being • Feeling • Accepting • Experiencing • Acknowledging • Remembering

  19. THE SIMON NARRATIVE • Took his own “stuff” for granted. • Developed a “religious spirit” - assumed he was right! • Forgot the grace of God is for others too! • It really is about “LOVE”.

  20. IT REALLY IS ABOUT LOVE • Greatest commandment (Matthew 22:37) • Embrace it – Do not assume • Sense, Feel, Experience, Know, Enjoy • Being Free • Being Full

  21. WARNING: SIMON’S RELIGIOUS SPIRIT “The spirit of religion seeks to substitute religious activity for the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.” –Rick Joyner

  22. RELIGIOUS SPIRIT Calculator: keeps track Evaluator: self and others Judges: active, behavior, motives “Deserves” credit Limits Freedom…and Love

  23. BEING FREE TO LOVE & BE LOVED • Honestly identify your JUNK. • Being released from your JUNK. • No hiding, no lying, no excuses, no blaming, no whining. • The sense of being free and full.

  24. CONCLUSION It really is about Love… and being Free!

  25. Q & R

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