Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Explain the principles behind Christ-centered redemptive-historical preaching

• Avoid the pitfalls of nonredemptive patterns of preaching

• Implement grace-centered principles for application

• Preach Christ-centered sermons from anywhere in the Bible

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Understanding the Redemptive Approach

• Anselm’s Flowers and Justification

• The Fallen Condition Focus

• The Goal of Redemptive Preaching

• The Progressive Revelation Principle

• The Organic Principle

• Discovering Old Testament Quotes and Allusions in the New Testament

• The Redemptive Principle

• The Implications of the Redemptive Perspective

• The Necessity of Redemptive Interpretation

• The Nature of Nonredemptive Preaching

• The Deadly Be’s: Design for Nonredemptive Preaching

• The Demerits of Nonredemptive Preaching

• Consulting Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms

Unit 2: Developing Redemptive Messages

• Review of Redemptive Principles for Christ-Centered Preaching

• Distinctives of Christ-Centered Preaching

• What Redemptive Preaching Actually Is

• A Basic Process of Christ-Centered Preaching

• Using Clause Search to Discover Divine Action in the Old Testament

• Traditional Approaches Useful for Some Texts

• Redemptive-Historical Approaches Useful for All Texts

• Interpretive Options: Redemptive-Historical

• Interpretive Options: Doctrinal Instruction and Literary Motif

• Interpretive Options: Relational-Interaction

• Redemptive “Lenses” to Use in Approaching All Texts

Unit 3: Preaching Christ-Centered Application

• The Grace of God Affects the Application

• The Highest Goal of Preaching

• Themes: Grace despite Our Sin

• Themes: Grace, Sin, and Holiness

• Motivation: Compulsion and Conduct

• Motivation: Our Conduct and God’s Acceptance

• Motivation: Imperative and Indicative—Part 1

• Tracking Imperative and Indicative Relationships in the New Testament

• Motivation: Imperative and Indicative—Part 2

• Motivation: Loving God

• Motivation: Loving Everyone God Loves

• Motivation: Self-Promotion or Self-Protection

• Motivation: Slavish Fear

• Motivation: Objective versus Subjective Guilt

• Answering the “How” Question

• Believing Change Is Possible

• The “Why” Is the “How”: Love Is Power

• The Power of the Disciplines

• Christ-Centered Application: Conclusion

Unit 4: Preaching from the Biblical Genres

• History and Biography: Locating the Event or Person in Redemptive History

• History and Biography: Exposing Grace Principles

• History and Biography: Example (2 Samuel 23:8–39)

• Law

• Poetry and Wisdom

• Prophecy and Apocalyptic

• Gospels

• Epistles

Details

• Title: CM152 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons II: Communicating a Theology of Grace

• Instructor: Bryan Chapell

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 6