HOMI 500 Quiz: Foundations
Quiz: Foundations for Writing the Sermon
- The goal of using the structural diagram and immediate observations is to gain as much information about the Text as you can?
- A predicate is a grammatical term that expresses the being or action of the subject.
- The skill that McDill wants to develop by using the structural diagram is this: recognizing and noting the relationship and function of various ideas in the text.
- Which one is not part of the Classic Method in moving from Text to Sermon?
- McDill states that the preacher should not state the four sentences in his Introduction as that would seem awkward to the audience.
- Research Questions are composed of which of the following types of questions?
- The Bible was written to
- Meaning and significance, as related to interpreting the Text, are synonymous.
- Sermon Division statements are stand alone universal principles.
- A quality division statement will be a complete statement in the past tense that reflects the Biblical writers qualification of the Text Idea.
- Sermons are essentially persuasive speech.
- Which one is not a factor in developing your powers of observation:
- Preachers are interpreters of the Text, who translate the meaning for their audience.
- The approach that McDill uses is the deductive approach?
- Before preaching a sermon, the preacher should have written a purpose statement of his sermon.
- A benefit of the structural diagram is that the main ideas in the text will stand out the most support from secondary ideas.
- The Text Idea and the Sermon Idea are the same thing.
- To test the validity of see whether it will stand alone as a timeless and universal statement of theological truth.
- The Text Idea and the Sermon Idea are both to be written as complete present tense sentences.
- Name the kinds of authority for a sermon that are based on the extent to which it reflects the subject and purpose of the Text.
- A purpose statement has as its goal an effect or change that the preacher is looking for his listeners to make. Which one(s) are desired changes according to McDill?
- The Text Idea should be a complete present tense sentence that is made up of the subject/modifier and removes the historical context from the sentence.
- Predicates have a direct connection to the sermon division statements.
- Which one is not an investigative question?
- When Analyzing the Text, the first step should be to start researching in the commentaries.
- The best way to interpret Scripture is with the best commentaries.
- To test the validity of the sermon idea you see whether it will stand alone as a timeless and universal statement of theological truth.
- Not only does interpretation aim for discovering meaning, but it also aims to go beyond meaning to significance.
- Match the following
- Match the following: