Weekly process

Wednesday-Content: Introduction Objective: To determine the contextual meaning of key terms and finalize your understanding of the passage, having interacted with scholarship. Goal (Mile-Marker 3) To have written contextual didactic descriptions of important words, along with a draft of the exegetical idea of the passage. Initially, the specific content we will be working on in …

Task 2. Draft Didactic Descriptions Essence of the Task Once you have reached some compelling conclusions about the words you are studying, it is time to write up those conclusions in a didactic (instructional) format that you can share with the congregation. In addition to being a great final step to solidify what you have …

Task 4. Write Up the Exegetical Idea Essence of the Task Having finished all our purely exegetical work, it is time to summarize our understanding of the passage in a few sentences that capture all the important ideas of our passage. Once written, we can use them to keep our homiletic development on track. This …