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FEATURE

Keep Your Pre
FOUR METHODS
by Nicholas McDonald

It’s Saturday morning.
You’ve done your research
– you know the passage
inside and out. If I asked
you about grammar or
syntax, you’d have a ready
answer. You know the
context, have done the
word studies, and prepared
the main point.

B

ut you’re not finished. Why? Because
you know, Sunday morning, you’ll be
preaching to people who’ve dragged
screaming children into a nursery.
People who will wake up the next morning
to a job they despise. People whose
marriages, finances, or health are on the
rocks, or worse.
You need to make this passage for them.
And now you’re sitting, stroking your hair,
beating your pen, wondering: ‘What do I
have to say to these people?’ You wait. You
pray. Nothing’s coming – so, you borrow
some notes from a few weeks before. Sure,
they’ve heard these illustrations. Maybe
you’ve repeated the application a time or
two. But it’s good stuff, right? They need to
hear it again.

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