{"id":7538,"date":"2015-05-07T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:31:14","slug":"david-guzik-on-preparing-a-message-for-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2015\/05\/07\/david-guzik-on-preparing-a-message-for-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"David Guzik on Preparing a Message for Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7542\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/20150507_preparingmessage2.jpg\" alt=\"20150507_preparingmessage2\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/20150507_preparingmessage2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/20150507_preparingmessage2-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago, David Guzik visited us at the Blue Letter Bible offices. He was kind enough to sit down with us and record a collection of short videos covering a range of helpful topics for those serving in ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s video, Guzik answers the question, \u201cHow do you prepare a message for teaching?\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His answer: &#8220;Spend a lot of time with the text itself&#8230; I spend time [in the text] with an emphasis on clarity and simplicity. I don&#8217;t come to the text looking for clever things that Ican say about the text. I&#8217;m not looking for the magic bullet. I&#8217;m just looking for the clear, simple sense of the text. That&#8217;s what needs to be impressed upon my heart so that I can impress it upon others in my teaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the rest:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Guzik: Preparing a Message for Teaching\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FpCBxeSNxPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, David Guzik visited us at the Blue Letter Bible offices. He was kind enough to sit down with us and record a collection of short videos covering a range of helpful topics for those serving in ministry. In today\u2019s video, Guzik answers the question, \u201cHow do you prepare a message for teaching?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7544,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}