Show Don't Tell: Mark 5:21-43
Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 5:21-43
This is a show dont tell prompt on homiletics and preaching technique for adults.
Instead of saying "Jesus healed a bleeding woman and raised a dead girl," watch the stories intertwine. Jairus, a synagogue leader, falls at Jesus' feet: his daughter is dying. Please come. Jesus goes; a large crowd follows, pressing against him. In that crowd, a woman who has suffered bleeding for twelve years—spent everything on doctors, grown worse. She thinks: "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."…
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