how to give bible study

1. MINORU EFREN S.
ESTRADA
Brief study of
advance homiletics.

2. 2 Timothy 4:2 – Preach the Word
with urgency, convincingly,
pointedly and faithfully
Preach – means “to cry out,
herald, or exhort.”

3. PREACHING is still the chief occupation of the minister
 Preaching is still the chief instrument for the spiritual
revival and restoration of souls .
 No matter how appealing and worthwhile, the
minister’s main job is not conducting choirs, coaching
a youth ball club, fund-raising, counseling,
administration, etc.
 Minister’s calling (see Minister’s Manual &
Denominational Work Policy)
 At first impression: People often evaluate our pastoral
capability on the basis of our preaching

4.  Minister’s lifelong endeavor: To become a
better, more effective preacher
 We must be concerned not only of what
we shall feed God’s flock but how.
 The church needs not only more men in
the pulpit but better preachers.
 We must give the best we have to
preaching

5.  “The man who accepts the position of being
mouthpiece for God should consider it highly
essential that he present the truth with all the
grace and intelligence he can, that the truth may
lose nothing in his presentation of it to the people.
Those who consider it a little thing to speak with
an imperfect utterance dishonor God”
(Evangelism, 665).

6.  “Preachers should pour out the message with
passion and fervor in order to stir souls. Not all
passionate pleading from a pulpit, however,
possesses divine authority. When preachers
speak as heralds, they must cry out ‘the Word.’
Anything less cannot legitimately pass for
Christian preaching.” (Haddon W, Robinson,
Biblical Preaching, 20)

7.  Tempting Subjects for Preaching: (but they are
not the words of life)
 Psychological concepts
 Philosophical thought
 Economic Theory
 Management Principles
 Political System
 History/current events
 Theological/scholarly trends

8. Specific Purposes of Preaching: (Principles and
Practice of Preaching, Ilion T. Jones, 34-47)
 1. To make people God-conscious
 A minister’s supreme function is to influence and aid
people to live spiritually
 2. To translate the gospel into modern thought terms.
 Purpose of the sermon is not merely to announce the
gospel but to communicate it
 3. To show the relevancy of the gospel to human
situations
 Every sermon ought to get down to reality, to where
people live

9.  4. To persuade men to believe the gospel and
live by it
 Preacher’s great opportunity and responsibility:
To persuade others to know and feel the gospel
truth as one himself has known and felt it
 5. To offer hope to sinful men
 The preacher’s duty is to think nobly about men
and persuade them to think nobly about
themselves.
 The gospel is man’s last best hope

10. 3 Types of Preachers: (Haddon
Robinson, Biblical Preaching)
1. Whom you cannot listen
2. Whom you can listen
3. Whom you must listen

11. I. Adventist Preaching is Biblical
 Abuse of the Bible:
 Proof texting out of context
 Pretexting – the preacher presents his personal
philosophy as though it is the Word of God
 Text stretching – more of eisegesis rather than
exegesis (e.g. allegorizing, embellishment)
 Text twisting – preaching from inferences
 Text desertion – simply citing a text as a starting
point or a spring board

12. Marks of Christ-centered Preaching
 1. Christ as proof
 What did Jesus say?
 What would Jesus do?
 2. Hope-centered; salvation-centered
 Gospel means good news! (not bad news)
 People come to church not to know they are sinners but
to know there is hope
 The law traces the problem; the Gospel solves the
problem
 3. Preaching as Christ preached
 Jesus was life-centered, interesting, illustrating preacher

13. General Classifications of Sermons
Topical
Textual
Narrative
Expository

14.  Basic Parts of a Sermon: Introduction,
Body, Conclusion (more on these later)
 5 Qualities of Good Sermon Organization:
 1. Unity – theme prevails throughout all the
divisions/subdivisions
 2. Coherence – the parts/points should
adhere one to another

15.  3. Progress – the listener’s attention is
carried along to a goal
 4. Symmetry – an amount of time
should be devoted to each part in
proportion to its importance
 5. Climax - the sermon must not only
move, it must finally reach a goal based
on the theme

16. Essential Aspects of Preaching:
 Content – based on personal studies
 Design – outline of sermonic points &
lessons
 Delivery – presentation before the
congregation
 Integrity (life sermon) – our sermon is a
reflection of our life

17.  The EXPOSITORY class is most faithful
to the Bible. It calls for a thorough
study of the Scripture based on sound
interpretation and structured to bring
out the salient features of a Biblical
passage to be applied to the needs of
the hearers.