Great preaching IDEA from Kevin DeYoung
Summarized from his blog post on the 9Marks blog
When you come to a passage there are four things you can do:
Illustrate – this is one of the two most difficult to do. “It requires a different part of your brain. You need to think creatively. You need to imagine what your people are or might be going through”
Defend – “it is rarely wise to spend a lot of time defending what your people don’t need defended”
Explain – “If the passage is especially obscure or controversial, it makes sense to land heavy on the E. But sometimes the passage is relatively simple. In this case, don’t spin your wheels on endless word studies that basically repeat with synonyms what everyone can see immediately in the text”
Apply – his is one of the two most difficult to do. “It requires a different part of your brain. You need to think creatively. You need to imagine what your people are or might be going through”
