Sublime

Over the next three years this group (which included coauthor Mark Snowden) developed an oral approach to discipling using Bible stories and recorded more than four hundred audio Bible stories. We called our set of stories Following Jesus: Making Disciples of Oral Learners2 and showed people how to adapt it for any culture.

Melvin Maxwell, Bill Hybels, John Wooden, Oswald Sanders, Jesus Christ,

Preachers must learn to observe and interrogate the features of a text as well as to relate and organize their conclusions about the text’s meaning. These four steps are discussed in their logical order, but the sequence often varies and the steps frequently blend in the process of preparing an expository message.