Homiletics Overview
Look at the Facts
The truth
So what?
About BSF
100

This is the first step of homiletics.

What is Content?

100

This includes ten words or less to summarize the entire passage.

What is a Subject Sentence?

100

This is the main truth or principle that rises from the passage.

What is the Aim?

100

You should have at least one of these for each division.

What are Application Questions?

100

This person founded BSF.

Who is A. Wetherell Johnson?

200

This is the last step of homiletics.

What are Application Questions? 

200

This is a list of 10-20 items that includes facts about the passage.

What are Content?

200

The Aim begins with this phrase.

What is CATL? (or Cause the Audience to Learn)

200

This is how Applications are worded.

What is a question form?

200

This is the book of the Bible we will study next year.

What is Revelations?

300

These are the five steps of homiletics.

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

300

This step reduces the content list to an even shorter list of two to four sections that follow the sequence of the passage and belong together.

What are Divisions?

300

The aim may be a truth about God or ________—a biblical truth that leads you somewhere rather than summarizes facts

What are people?

300

Applications should aim at this, not surface behavior modification.

What is heart transformation?

300

This is an App that allows anyone to start their own in-depth Bible study with BSF resources.

What is WordGo?

400

These three steps of homiletics focus on the facts of the passage.

What are Content, Divisions, and Subject Sentence?

400

These words or phrases commonly used in social media can be used to reduce Bible verses to fewer words in the content section.

What are #hashtags? 

400

The Aim incorporates this concept for each lesson.

What is the Big Idea?

400

Applications should balance questions that convict of wrong thinking with positive questions that do this.

What are "encourage trust in and surrender to God"? 

400

She is BSF's Executive Director.

Who is Hollie Roberts?

500

This is the phrase printed at the top of the homiletics diagram shaped like an hourglass, which describes the process of narrowing the passage down to the different parts of homiletics.

What is "Think and Shrink"?

500

These are included at the beginning of each content item/line and at the end of each division.

What are Bible verse numbers?

500

The Aim should be _______, meaning in agreement with the whole Bible.

What is doctrinally correct or universally true?

500

Questions may be targeted at ___________ or toward a particular category of people in your audience.

What/Who is yourself? 

500

What is BSF's four-fold approach? 

What is answering lesson questions, discussing in small group, listening to teaching (lecture), and reading the notes on the passage?