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HOMI 500
Naming the Text Idea
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12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching / Wayne McDill / 2006 / B&H Used by Permission
HOMI 500
Naming the Text Idea
Text:
Philippians 1:12-18
King James Version
12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching / Wayne McDill / 2006 / B&H Used by Permission
The purpose of this exercise is to discover the
writer’s central idea in the text and designating it
with precise terminology.
HOMI 500
12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching / Wayne McDill / 2006 / B&H Used by Permission
Work from your structural diagram and
observations
Aim to define the idea precisely in your
own mind.
Make sure the idea reflects what the
writer said.
Use wording for text and sermon
ideas.
Word text idea as a plus subject
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