QUESTIONS TO ASK OTHERS AND TO ASK YOURSELF
Here are some helps for *after* the sermon. How can you hear the Word and exit with profitableness? Here are some pastoral helps and ideas to exit with intentionality, focus, deliberateness, sermon-application for your own heart and for others.
1. QUESTIONS to ask others (how do we talk with others?)
#1) how did that sermon challenge you?
#2) what do you need to change in your life because of that sermon?
#3) what did you learn from that text?
#4) how did God instruct your heart about His own character?
#5) what did God show you about yourself in this sermon/text?
#6) what did God show you about Christ & the gospel tonight?
Thomas Gouge admonished, “Had you ever tasted of the sweetness of this duty of Divine Meditation, you would finde little time for vain talk, and idle discourses, especially upon the Lords day.”
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2. QUESTIONS to ask myself after I hear a sermon
Questions to ask yourself after you hear the Word:
1. Is there change I need to implement in my life?
2. Is there sin I need to confess and repent?
3. Is there instruction I need to embrace and obey?
4. Is there doctrine I need to further study and apply?
Luke 8:15 -- “But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance!
