Show Don't Tell: Matthew 18:6-9
Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 18:6-9
This is a show dont tell prompt on homiletics and preaching technique for adults.
Instead of saying "Jesus warned against causing others to stumble," feel the millstone sink. "If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Picture it: heavy stone tied on, shoved off a boat, plunging into deep water, no possibility of surfacing.…
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