How To Use These Outlines
These audio sermons and outlines are posted on This Christian Journey to help
equip the people of our Lord Jesus Christ for their ministry in our Lord's
Kingdom. These studies will help equip the people of our Lord by,
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Providing solid fundamental Bible
studies that will help each individual know what they believe based
on the inerrant Word of God.
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Providing a teaching and discipling
tool that will assist our Lord's people in teaching, and preaching
the Word God to others.
The outlines posted on this site are
formatted to maximize their usefulness in various teaching and
discipleship settings.
The Unedited
Outline and Audio Sermon are presented to help a teacher,
preacher, or mentor prepare to teach a subject by helping them to gain a
fuller knowledge of the subject through these resources. There
will likely be more quality information provided then can be taught in a
single class session, so the preacher/teacher may have to choose those
elements that will help their class the most.
Power Point
Presentations are made easy through the formatting of these
outlines. You will quickly notice [bracketed] text
throughout these outlines. This is employed to make power point
presentations quick and accurate. Since learning and retention is
exponentially increased by adding visual impact to ones learning
process, Pastor Walt always uses power points and other appropriate
visual aids to help bring retention to his sermons, teaching and
discipleship. Power Point presentations are an important element
that helps people remember what they have been taught. To turn
these outlines into a quick and accurate power point presentation,
after you have printed the unedited outline for the preachers/teachers
use, delete all the bracketed text. What is left is a set of text
the will be appropriate for a good power point presentation. Cut
and past this text into a power point and set it up so each point
appears separately. At CrossRoads Baptist Church we also print a
copy of this Power Point text for our presentation man so he knows what
the next power point element is and can bring up that element at the
appropriate point in the message (when Pastor Walt proclaims the point
in the message).
Learner Outlines
which cause the student to actually become involved in the sermon or
class by writing important information down will increase retention even
more. Therefore, take the next step and turn this Power Point
Presentation into an outline with empty blanks and spaces for students
to fill in and take important notes. To do this merely replace
underscored words with empty blanks and place the outline on the back of
your Church bulletin for print the outline on a piece of paper for your
students to use. Then teach students to take sermon and lesson
notes to help them remember what they have been taught.
The goal of all preaching, teaching,
and ministry in the Church is to equip God's people for the work of our
Lord's ministry. For far too long God's people have come to
Church, Sunday School, and Bible Study just to walk away and forget what
they have been taught from the life changing Word of God. Pastors
and teachers must use everything that they have available to them to
help prepare our Lord's People to retain what they have been taught and
empower them to pass on their faith to the lost around them and the next
generation that will relieve them.
Every born again believer must be
taught to learn in a way that will equip them to teach others whether
through preaching, teaching or one-on-one mentoring. One never
knows when God will task them with building another person for the sake
of our Lord's glorious and eternal Kingdom. It is our hope that
these studies and outlines will help you to be as effective as possible
as you strive to grow our Lord's People.