Show Don't Tell: Mark 5:1-20
Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 5:1-20
This is a show dont tell prompt on homiletics and preaching technique for adults.
Instead of saying "Jesus healed the Gerasene demoniac," meet the man in the tombs. They cross to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus gets out of the boat, immediately a man with an impure spirit comes from the tombs. He lives among the dead. No one can bind him anymore—not even with chains. He has often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart, broke the irons on his feet.…
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