CLASS MOTTO
Updated 4Jan98 for Winter 1998

WHAT WE WILL NOT DO:

• We will NOT read our own meaning into a Biblical passage
• We will NOT create our own message
• We will NOT create our own central theme
• We will NOT veer from author's theme
• We will NOT ramble
• We will NOT preach without personal conviction and experience
• We will NOT preach without expecting to change lives
• We will NOT go overtime

WHAT WE WILL DO:

• We WILL interpret the Bible in its normal and natural sense
• We WILL communicate the author's message
• We WILL find the author's central theme
• We WILL build a message around the author's theme
• We WILL make that theme central part of everything said
• We WILL experience and apply the message to ourselves (preach from the heart)
• We WILL preach to change lives (preach to hurting souls)
• We WILL make our sermons SHORT and GOOD