Step One: Pray and pray and pray some more.
Step Two: Find the main idea of your passage.
You will need to do the observation and interpretation steps of Bible Study to find the idea. Here are some questions to ask to help you: Who is doing the main action(or who is the? What action is being done? Why is this happening? What is causing this action to be done? When should this happen? How can this happen? Where did this happen (what culture, city, circumstance)?
If your passage is a narrative, that is a story, you can also use the SWBS - (Someone Wants But So) formula to find the main idea of the passage.
Step Three: Now you are going to persuade your audience to do something.
This is the application stage. Who do you want to do this? Why do you want them to do this? When do you want them to do this and how long and by what time? Where do you want them to do this? Whom do you want them to do this to? How do you want them to do this?
Step Four: Conclude with a challenge
You want your audience to leave with a purpose, with something they can do!!
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