Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 4 | THE EQUIPPING MINISTRY: THE MINISTRY OF PROCLAMATION / 335

The Equipping Ministry The Ministry of Proclamation – Kerygma

LESSON 4

page 161 & 1

Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Recite the three central steps in planning out, delivering the content, and making connection with the audience through the preached Word. • Lay out the ways in which we establish contact with our hearers as we spotlight issues, concerns, ideas, or experiences that resonate in the lives of the audience, which can also be used as a springboard into our preaching content. • List key principles as to how we can paint a picture through our words in the spiritual eyes of our hearers so as to show them our themes (not merely tell them about it), preaching messages which focus on Christ and his Kingdom, using the Bible’s methods of images, symbols, and stories, being organized in a plain and simple manner. • Explain how use of the liturgy and the Church calendar allow us to provide our audiences with a continuous retelling of the Story of God in the life and work of Jesus, and thus highlight the whole counsel of God annually through his story. • Gain skill in making connections in our preaching with the audience by inviting them to specific and particular responses, helping them to understand their spiritual condition before God by making clear appeals and bold invitations for repentance and change, and when responses are made, gaining insight as to how these should be followed up on quickly and thoroughly. An Enemy of a Different Sort 2 Cor. 4.1-7 – Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. [2] But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to

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Devotion page 163 & 2