HOMILETICS
Preaching / Teaching Practical Labs
updated 3-19-10
Guidelines for these labs: try and stay within the allotted time limits; it is up to the discretion of your teacher or proctor to how ‘long’ you may go beyond the limit. It should be at least the minimum time. The goal is to employ what you have learned in the recent lectures for that particular sermon / lesson / delivery. The secondary goal is for the student to become more relaxed and confident with preaching / teaching.
They are graded as “Pass” or “Fail”. A ‘failure’ is when the student fails to deliver the assignment, or if they are obviously not prepared. They may stumble, mumble, pause, giggle, etc., but as long as they had a ‘sermonette’ that dealt with the topic at hand for at least a minute, then they will ‘pass’.
Ladies are to participate in these labs also. Here are their guidelines: they won’t be ‘preaching’ per se, but they will be ‘teaching’ it, as one would to a children’s Sunday School class, or a group of Ladies (spreaching?). They shouldn’t deliver it to men though (except for whatever man might be ‘proctoring’ it). They won’t be employing everything that is taught in this course, necessarily, but, the majority of it will be very applicable to teaching.
Correspondance students:
We simply need you to present your sermonette to an adult (ideally a group of adults); they can be from your church, a neighbor, a relative (ideally from your church and a non-relative). Be as professional and serious with the presentation as you can. It is designed to get you more accustomed and skilled at presenting spiritual information to others (ideally in a classroom, lecture hall, or church meeting setting).
After you have completed the lab, please email (or have someone who observed you email me) what Lecture # you completed and maybe the title and 1 or 2 points that you covered (in brief; one sentence for each is fine).
The majority of these labs need to be completed in order for credit to be given for the Homiletics course.
Lecture 6 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute sermon / lesson on “any topic or text” you desire
Lecture 12 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute sermon / lesson on a “favorite Bible character”
Lecture 18 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute sermon / lesson ‘introduction’
Lecture 20 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute sermon / lesson on a favorite ‘verse’ of Scripture
Lecture 22 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute sermon / lesson on a favorite ‘passage’ of Scripture
Lecture 24 - prepare and deliver a 5 – 7 minute sermon / lesson on a favorite ‘topic’ of Scripture
Lecture 26 - prepare and deliver a 2 – 3 minute ‘illustration’ to help support some Bible truth
Lecture 29 - prepare and deliver a 2 – 3 minute ‘application’ of any verse of Scripture
Lecture 31 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute conclusion and invitation (ladies omit the invitation)
Lecture 34 - prepare and deliver a 5 – 7 minute sermon / lesson that employs the ‘methods’ recently learned
Lecture 36 - prepare and deliver a 3 – 5 minute sermon / lesson that employs some of the ‘styles’ recently learned
Lecture 39 - prepare and deliver a 2 – 3 minute sermon / lesson that focuses on‘getting them to listen and understand’
Lecture 40 - prepare and deliver a 2 – 3 minute sermon / lesson that uses a lot of ‘gesturing’
Lecture 42 - prepare and deliver a 2 – 3 minute sermon / lesson that focuses on ‘proper voice mechanics’
Lecture 44 - prepare and deliver a 5 – 7 minute sermon / lesson that focuses on ‘in Spirit and in power’
Lecture 46 - prepare and deliver a 2 – 3 minute sermon / lesson that focuses on ‘the Truth in love’
Lecture 51 - prepare and deliver a 30 – 45 minute sermon / lesson employing all of what you have learned in this
course (this should be delivered to at least 10 adults) (Correspondance students need to arrange for this)