Preaching Without Notes

by Webb, Joseph M.

• ISBN13: 9780687090884
• ISBN10: 0687090881
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781426720635
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: INGRAM
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Summary

In this important book, Webb makes two central claims. First, that effective preaching without a manuscript is not a matter of talent as much as it is a matter of preparation. Preachers can learn the practices and disciplines that make it possible to deliver articulate, thoughtfully crafted sermons, not from a written page, but as a natural, spontaneous act of oral communication. Throughout the book, the author offers specific examples including a transcript of a sermon preached without manuscript or notes. Second, that the payoff of learning to preach without a manuscript is nothing less than sermons that more effectively and engagingly give witness to the good news.

Author Biography

Joseph M. Webb is the author of several books on preaching, and has been a professor of both speech communication and homiletics at Pepperdine University and Claremont School of Theology

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(15)
Acknowledgments	15	(4)
Introduction Why Preach Without Script or Notes?	19	(16)
Planning the Sermon Without Notes: Monday and Tuesday	35	(22)
Creating the Sermon Outline: Wednesday	57	(20)
Memorizing the Sermon Outline: Thursday and Friday	77	(20)
Delivering the Sermon Without Notes: Sunday	97	(22)
Appendix Working Manuscript of a Sermon Preached Without Notes: ``Writing Your Own Gospel''	119	(14)
Notes	133