Homiletics Overview
FACTS
LESSON
APPLICATION
About BSF
100

The 5 steps in homiletics

What are Contents, Divisions, Subject Sentence, Aim, and Application?

100

First step in homiletics

What is Content?

100

Main truth or principle lesson

What is homiletics Aim?

100

You need at least one of these for each division

What is Application Question?

100

This person founded BSF

Who is A. Wetherell Johnson?

200

Another name for homiletics

What is Passage Discovery?

200

2-4 summary sentences

What are Divisions?

200

Aim begins with this format

What is CATL? (Cause the Audience to Learn)

200

This is how Applications are worded

What is a Question form?

200

San Antonio, Texas

Where is BSF headquarters?

300

Number of steps that focus on facts of the passage

3 (Contents, Divisions, Subject Sentence)

300

True or False? Content lists must be in complete sentences

False: complete sentences are not required in content lines

300

Who is the Aim usually about

Who is God or man?

300

True or False? Application questions must be convicting, not encouraging

False: they can be either convicting or encouraging; the goal is heart change

300

The study planned for 2025-2026

What is "People of the Promise: Exile & Return"

400

The last step in homiletics

What is Application?

400

Ten words or less with facts

What is a Subject Sentence? 

400

Bibilically accurate Aims are "_____ true" and "_____ accurate"

What are "universally true" and "doctrinally accurate"?

400

The question starters used in application questions

What are the Interrogatives? (What, When, Who, What, Where, How)

400

The study planned for 2026-2027

What is Romans?

500

A way to teach class members about homiletics 

What is Seminar?

500

This is included at the end of each division sentence

What are verse numbers?

500

When developing an aim, it is helpful to ask ourselves this (multiple answers)

What is the point of the passage? 

What was the author’s intent? 

What timeless truth is conveyed?

500

Applications should aim at this, not that

What are "Heart Transformation" and not "Behavioral Modification"?

500

The Executive Director

Who is Hollie Roberts?

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