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In Preaching classes the professor often alerts the students of the tendency many have to turn out to be "note-bound" - particularly if he or she is using sermon notes that have the information prepared word-for-word (or "full manuscript"). We have sat through many sermons personally in which the preacher read, instead of preached, the message. It is rather cumbersome to follow somebody who performs this, and the warning through our well-meaning professors must be listened to. But simultaneously, a lot of us that are in the pulpit week after week know that it really is difficult in order to memorize the whole information, and have failed totally at talking extemporaneously, even if we now have gone over the sermon again and again.

The following suggestions for preaching with a complete manuscript while looking just like you are talking with little or no information comes from years of preach with power experience. I have lots of people ask me how I preach without having notes, once the fact is, I have five or even more pages of single-spaced, typed notes before me personally the entire time. This is how I actually do it:

1 . Use a adequate font to see from a distance (I use fourteen point).

2 . Use Clear, Relevant, and Simple Main Points and Sub-Points (in DARING CAPITAL LETTERS).

3. Start each and every sentence with a new line.

4. Start every sentence having a hyphen (-).

5. Make use of the ampersand (&) rather than "and" as well as use shortened forms of "with" (w/) and "without" (w/o).

6. Use commas, colonisateur , as well as semi-colons while you normally would.

seven. Put all illustrative materials in brackets [Illustration].

eight. Type all your bible verses texts within italics besides the scripture research.

9. Have a Yellow-colored Highlighter and emphasize all Main Points and Sub-Points, the actual hyphen (-) which begins each new line, the actual ampersands (&), "with" and "withouts" (w/, w/o), interruption preach with power, colonisateur , and semi-colons. Also, highlight all scripture text (but not the reference), and draw a collection (with the actual highlighter) over the left-hand margin of your web page alongside any sermon illustrations you might have.

After you have done this particular you will notice a single-spaced rollo manuscript with yellow-colored markings throughout it.

What this will do is to enable you to check a good portion of the page, taking in much more than you would be able to or else. You will find yourself only glancing at the page occasionally, and facing your congregation a much higher percentage of the time. Additionally, in case you provide your own congregation having a "fill-in-the-blank" type outline, the majority of them will be looking down at the page when you state your Main as well as Sub-Points, enabling you to quickly focus your eyes on the text below the points and look regress to something easier at your audience before they are done writing on the sermon notes page.

Yet another thing - go over your own notes the evening before you preach, and again about 15 minutes for an hour before you decide to actually deliver the message. You will be so familiar with your sermon that might be your self glancing in the highlighted servings and barely having to skim the notes at all. But simultaneously, you might have the safety of your manuscript "just in case! inch