How to Preach One-Point Sermons (And why you'd want to)

[@michaelmatthews343]

Very good episode! I started preaching this way about 2 years ago. The main thing is knowing your audience/congregation and purpose.

[@caldoncharles505]

would love to glean from you how it's done from your context

[@Christusolus]

@@caldoncharles505I’d like to glean from him as well. One way, from learning from Preaching Donkey, is preaching the format, “Me, we, God, you, we.” Another teacher/preacher named Manny Arango, said conversation = content. Meaning, have a lot of conversations with people in your congregation.

[@Christusolus]

What are your thoughts on exegetical sermons. Where a preacher uses a particular passage to build a sermon vs a pastor who, instead, is also faithful to the text, but wants to preach one point and preaches from multiple texts? Both being faithful to the gospel.

[@twill1235]

Lane once again very helpful insight about communicating Gods eternal Truth. I have been eager to apply this approach, yet I will be preaching my 1st single point sermon this Sunday. Question do you consider the BL as your thesis? However what you have provided has given me some supporting sources to improve going forward. Blessings

[@PreachingDonkey]

Yes, bottom line would serve as the thesis of the message.

[@pastorjoseochoa7789]

Thank you. I do both 1 point and 3 point messages but I want to do more 1 point messages.

[@caldoncharles505]

I really wanted some examples to help me Lane. I know you mentioned the link for us to see is this a free access?

[@Christusolus]

Check out Manny Arango. He said something like, if you were arguing who’s the best basketball player. You’d bring in lots of arguments that are irrefutable. One time I had a vision on how to also preach one point sermon, which was, a time a friend had a broken door. He thought the door was not broken, but what I did was, 1. Showed them the door that’s broken. 2. Tell him how I knew the door was broken. Example: Tell them my testimony. Tell them what happened to me. Tell them how I found out the problem. 3. Then told them the solution.

[@donrwhite]

I call it "The Sermon in a Sentence." I always boil it down to a sentence of less than 10 words. Everything in the message supports the S.I.S. And I tell the listeners what the S.I.S. is, usually quite early in the message. Sometimes I will reveal the S.I.S. in segments as the message develops.

[@PreachingDonkey]

I love that! Thanks for sharing your method.