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Outlining your sermon. Do you do it?
Some pastors do their sermon preparation work and then head straight into sermon writing which, for them, consists of putting together a kind of extended outline - not quite a manuscript - document. This is not what I mean.
Other pastors do their sermon preparation work and then write out their manuscript. An outline isn't a part of the process in any way.
What I'm advocating is that there's a bridge between sermon preparation and whatever form of sermon writing that you do.
Here's the order I'm proposing:
Sermon preparation - outline the sermon - write your sermon