In my roaming around the internet for lo! these several years, I have, at times, strayed out of the Southern Baptist fields and found things. One of the things I have found is advice on how to evaluate a sermon. So below are two different methods.
First from a Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod pastor comes his three step evaluation criteria. Apply the steps in this order:
- Is Jesus mentioned?
- Is Jesus the subject or the object of the verbs?
- What are the verbs?
The point is that the content of the sermon should be that the Gospel is what Jesus did, not what we do.
The second, one-step, criterion comes from a Methodist bishop. His is probably logically equivalent to the Lutheran's, but is a great deal more succinct. It goes like this:
- Did Jesus have to die for this to make any kind of sense?
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