Sublime

God can get every characteristic of Christ into your life if He can just teach you to persevere.

Thus, the primary purpose of a conclusion is motivation.

One sentence of concise recap within the larger conclusion will usually suffice.

When a preacher says, “What we should do” or “What you should believe,” the sermon automatically moves out of the abstract.

Luther’s

We are secure in God’s love;

Specific statements such as these can capture the FCF that drives the development of a sermon: “When you cannot see God’s purposes, God’s promises can make you angry”; “It seems impossible to raise godly teens in a culture in which all values are relative”; or “When we know we are guilty, the gift of grace does not feel like it costs us enough.”

Every proposition should be stated broadly enough so that the main points are divisions of, not additions to, its thought.

The gospel thus became a message of grace for the credentialed,