Creating the Frame
– Formative thinking
– Formative activity
– Formative restriction
General Information
– Television
– Newspapers
– Magazines
– Tapes
- Organization
- Setting a time limit
- Poisonous leaks (discernment)
- Speeding and reckless speech driving
- Warning tags (advising your hearers to keep a certain thought or phase)
- Hazardous stacking (Don’t compile too much together to fast)
- Keep in storage (Leave them hungry) (Better to be more informed than to be misinformed
- Creating the momentum (setting the pace) = speed
- Creating the atmosphere (setting the presence) = safety
- Creating the path (setting the place) = satisfaction
Increase – your knowledge
Learn – your topic more
Control – your concentration
Generate the outflow of your information
Make – your ideas and thoughts simple and direct
Note: A proper assessment of the scriptures will give you a power acclamation of your message.
- Discernment is the father of intelligence
- Discernment splits apart information for intelligence to sift out
- To sift out information is to: dissect knowledge to the root in order to establish understanding.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE PREPARING YOUR MESSAGE
1. The value of relationships
2. The network of relationships
3. The importance of relationships
4. The dynamics of relationships
5. The interaction of relationships
Ask yourself these questions
How can others benefit from your message?
How can others be strengthen from your message?
How can others be mobilized by your message?
How can others be challenged by your message?
How can others be kept by your message?
Note: Remember that the text must be clarified and justified before it can be intensified
Interpretation process application
If the text is studied correctly it will show forth the real interpretation and its intention.
The voice of your message should:
1. Challenge others to live on the cutting edge
2. Give advice for Christian living
3. Impart integrity
4. Cause others to examine and analyze their lives
5. Bring comfort to their hearts and minds
6. Give them a greater spectrum of learning
7. Teach them to distinguish between righteousness and unrighteousness
8. Give them a deeper appreciation of God and life
9. Create in them a need for more of the Lord
10. Give them a sense of direction.
11. Inspire them to prayer, worship and praise
12. Give them a sense of fulfillment
13. Cause them to make others hungry for God
14. Cause them to see their ultimate success in the Lord
15. Cause them to see and understand the penalty for sin and the rewards of righteousness.
16. Show them the importance a good strong foundation in the word of God.
17. Give them a sense of belonging to the family of God.
18. Give them hope for their ministry (weather in the present or the future).
19. Show them their responsibility toward God and man.
20. Give them a measuring rod to live by.
Cutting edge research (the latest information)
P – Practice the Text
A – Articulate the Text
R – Reiterate the Text
T – Teach