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What forms can an expository sermon take?

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What forms can an expository sermon take?

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1. A sequential order–I simply take things in the order that they appear in the text. That can be fine. 2. A logical order. The expositor will find it hard at times to go in the direct order of the text. A particular text might have a theme that Paul begins, then a long parenthetical thought that might go two or three verses, and then Paul might pick up that theme again. If I’m going verse by verse, I may not actually be able to follow the thought. So I may need not only to do sequential development; I may need to add logical development, which identifies the major themes and presents them in a homiletical outline that may not exactly follow the exegetical outline. For another example, some psalms are formed on the Hebrew alphabet, every verse representing a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet. That order may get complicated for a listener today. When I write and when the biblical writers write, typically we state our most important thoughts first and then develop them. But in an

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