Conclusions

As you tell the story, you thread the key terms through the telling of the story, so as you tell the story, the ear rehears those key terms. Some variation occurs in the remainder of this conclusion. The enabling presence of Jesus has been clearly seen in the difficult situation that my mother faced with her friend Betty. Although my mother is not a naturally gifted evangelist, the Lord has used her to faithfully and clearly speak the truth and love to Betty. Again and again. By the way, where have you heard the story of Betty before? It was in the introduction. This is actually what's called a wrap-around conclusion. That is, the remainder of the story of the introduction is told within the conclusion. What does that give you a sense of if you complete the telling of the story in the conclusion? Closure, resolution, it's coming together. It has a sense that there was a real plan to how the sermon was developed. I began something and then I resolved it, brought it to a conclusion. So the story that begins in the intro and finishes in the conclusion actually has a title. It's a wrap-around and this is done in all kinds of arts, isn't it? In music, you have circular closure, a theme that you heard early in a symphony and reappears at the end. In novels, something that was done in the first chapter reappears at the end. It's a way of kind of professionally saying, here's the resolution. Now, do we always do wrap-around conclusions? Certainly not. In fact, if you did it every week, you could apparently, what's he going to do this week, that sort of approach? But nonetheless, it can be a powerful way of doing things to begin something, kind of leave it unresolved in the beginning and then resolve it in the conclusion. But even in that resolution, we'll see these terms start reappearing. For weeks on end, my mother patiently, but firmly, exorded and rebuked Betty from God's word, trying to convince her to change her mind and to flee from her sin. Even though Betty continued to abandon the truth and would not listen to my mother's sound and loving admonition, my mother continued to fulfill her duty and to defend God's truth in order to rescue this person in need. Now, do you see even in the telling of the story the terms reappearing? Now, actually, in this place, they're all kind of grouped together again, but you could have spread them through the telling, couldn't you? Although Betty has not yet repented of her sin, my mother knows the joy and blessing of a clear conscience toward Betty. As a result of her obedience in doing the work of an evangelist, she has been strengthened and encouraged to speak God's word with more confidence than ever before. You and I can also know this confidence, peace and joy, as we faithfully speak of God's judgment, and the hope we have in Jesus. When we consider what God has done for us in Christ by saving us from His judgment, we will have fresh motivation to obey Him and to proclaim His word in every situation. Proclaim His word in every situation came from where again? That's the proposition echoing yet. Now, we won't do that all the time, but this person wanted to have kind of a telling statement that he wanted to end with, right? So he kind of used that telling statement to actually be the last words of the sermon itself. Not saying you would do that every time, but it is interesting to see the goals that are being reached for, remind of what the sermon was about, and draw it into an exhortation that is said with some poignancy at the end. And that's what we're trying to do with conclusions. Now, you've seen one. Let's talk about what they are, and we'll begin to see these components in more detail. As we talk about the goal of this lesson, lecture 10, it's to understand the characteristics and construction principles for sermonic conclusions. And the reason is, this is the high point of the sermon, right? This is what we've been driving at. This is the final exhortation to say, all that I've been saying is to have you hear this response that God is calling for you to achieve or to follow because of what we talked about in this text. If you think about some guiding principles for conclusions, why they are so important, just three basic ideas, okay? Guiding principles. First, the last, last, longest, the last, last, longest. What you say last, particularly in an oral medium, last, longest in people's minds, memories, and impressions. So it's so important because we know that's what people are going to hear echoing as they leave. As a result, we also recognize the last punches hardest. Second, the last punches hardest. What is said last, assuming it said well, is what actually carries the greatest impression of the overall sermon. Now why is that intimidating to us? Because you know, all Saturday I've been working on the sermon, and you know about one o'clock in the morning, I was getting to the conclusion. So when I'm most tired, I'm trying to say the thing that actually will have the greatest import. So it just helps us to say, now what are my priorities here? And typically those who teach preaching encourage people to say, if this is the most important, if it carries the biggest punch, it needs to be produced with some care. And therefore, the last guideline is the last comes first. The last comes first. Now what I mean by that, as you read in your readings, you recognize this as an old debate among homoleticians. It is when do you prepare the conclusion relative to the rest of the sermon? Now if you're presenting the sermon, you know the conclusion comes last. But when you're preparing the sermon, there are some dangers in preparing the conclusion last. One I've already mentioned to you. You're just tired. You're now very tired and you're trying to do the most important telling aspect of the message. What's another problem with maintaining the writing of the waiting for the writing of the conclusion until after you've written everything else? Any other thoughts of what might be a problem with the conclusion at that point? You might suggest something new. In fact, if you didn't know what your destination was, how did you even choose the words and the terms and the exegesis to spotlight as you were working through the sermon? It's like driving a car without having a destination. If you don't know where you're going, then how did you even decide what route to pick, what words to choose, what exegesis to concentrate on? All right, that's one danger. Now what's the other danger? What's the danger of writing your conclusion before you've done all the other preparation of the sermon? Now there's a reverse danger. What's the danger of saying this is what I'm going to talk about before you've written everything else? You might create, you might impose something on the text that's not there. You might create a sermon that is moving towards something that before you'd really thought through it. And you know even as you're writing the Holy Spirit works in your heart and mind to direct you as you're going so that you may be death as it were to what the Spirit and the Word are saying to you because you're going to your destination. Now how do we put these two things together? How do we say if there's dangers on both sides? How do we put this together? I would say it this way. You create the target but you hold it loosely. You create the target but you hold it loosely. It is very important to have a fairly clear idea of your destination before you write the rest of the sermon. If you don't know where you're going there could all be all kinds of word choices, at least generally knowing where you're going. All kinds of word choices, how am I going to state these main points? How am I going to state the sub points? What applications? If I don't know what my destination is. But I think you want to be willing to change your destination if the Spirit and the Word are directing you elsewhere. So to have a fairly clear idea of where you're going is important we'll talk a little bit later about what I call the left field rule. How do you know when you're out in left field when you're doing a sermon? When you get toward the end and you want to say hmm I wonder how I should apply this. You just told yourself you already missed the bus. What were you doing all that exposition about if you didn't know what the application was? If you don't know what the conclusion is where you're going what was all that other stuff about even. So having a general idea being loosely holding on it but a fairly general idea of this is where I'm going because I've studied the passage enough gets me down the road to the conclusion. When we do application I'll say it this way. Application should come at the end of sermon research. You don't want to be doing application before you've researched the material. So application comes at the end of sermon research but it comes at the beginning of sermon writing. In other words I got to know how I'm putting this thing together. Conclusion is all the more important. I should have research what this passage is about before I'm coming up with conclusions but I should have a clear idea of the destination as I'm doing all the preparation for the presentation of that material. So you'll read and I know there's a balance there. Do you remember some of the authors who say prepare the conclusion first brought us father expository preaching. He says prepare the conclusion first and he's very much aware of you're so tired that you may not do it well. Rayburn says prepare it first. Hadan Robinson in his book on biblical preaching says prepare it first. It's interesting. Stought is the one who kind of breaks the pattern and you'll read that work next semester and John Stought is the one who says don't prepare it till you've done everything else and what have I said somewhere in between okay to be aware of the dangers of both side. That's known as the melee mouth approach. I think what you'll find is it's what you begin to do. It's what you'll do. If you don't have an idea of where you're going you just feel a swim as you're preparing all the material. On the other hand if you say no matter what I found out I can't change my conclusion then you'll feel handcuffed to actually say what the spirit has been saying to you. What are the components of conclusions? If they're meeting these goals what are their components? G Campbell Morgan said it this way and it's the summary first and then we'll go into details. G Campbell Morgan said every conclusion must conclude include and preclude. It must conclude. It must end. It must stop the sermon from going on so it must conclude. It must include. That is it must include what has previously been said. That's summary right. It's reminding people of what has been said and it must preclude. That is it must preclude the possibilities. The listener will escape the message. It's giving not just a reminder it's giving the implications. What we will ultimately call the exhortation. Now that you know what is God calling you to do or believe how should you respond. The technical ways of saying these things are first recapitulation, concise summary. The first thing that the first component technically is recapitulation. There should be some sort of concise summary, not extended explanations but hammer stroke statements which quickly reiterate the central concepts of the message in order to make the final appeal for action. It's the fast marshaling of the sermon's forces using its important underlying here key terms using the key terms of the sermon. Where do they come from again? The key terms of the sermon. They're the key terms of the magnet clauses of the main points. They're the key terms of the magnet clauses of the main points. What are two ways of presenting them in summary? We've already said you can group. What's another way that you can do it in the telling of a story? Thread. You can group or thread. Group is putting together in a summary statement. Threading is telling a story and having those key terms reappear in the telling the story to bring the mind and the ear back to an awareness of what things have been about. Let me just read to you from a Debbie Sankster who was a really a wonderful pastor in England a century ago how he did it one time. Let me tell you what his sermon was about and then listen to his conclusion. See how he threads so well. Here was his sermon was about this. He was emphasizing the believer has been purchased by Christ blood. Therefore he no longer belongs to the world. He belongs to God. Hear it? Purchased by Christ blood so he no longer belongs to the world. He belongs to God. Sankster said this. Some time ago a poor drunkard committed his life to Christ in this church. Twenty years before that he had actually been a pastor in a church nearby. But when he assumed a pastorate in this town he took to drink and he ended up in the gutter. When he gave his life to Christ he had a hope though. When he truly believed he was purchased by Christ blood he believed that his first might be quenched by some stroke of omnipotence that God would just take the first away but that did not happen. They began the day that he was purchased by Christ a long guerrilla warfare in his soul between the deadly craving and the keeping power of Christ. As his new friend I suggested that on any day that he found his fight especially hard that he would drop by the church and we would pray together. He dropped in often. His drawn face often told its own story and we would go to the chapel and we would pray. One day as I was praying with him he broke down completely. The contrast between his earlier life of holy service and the revolting bestiality to which his drunkenness had brought him was too much for him that day. He sobbed like a child and said I know I'm in the gutter I know it but I don't belong there do I tell me tell me I do not belong there. I put my arm around him I thought a great elation even in the embarrassment of his tears he had lost his way but Christ had not lost him. No I said quite positively Christ purchased you by his blood and you do not belong to this world. You belong to him. This is the same hope that God offers you each of you here and that you must claim you don't belong to the world you belong to God believe it live it. Hear the key terms it's really beautifully done and at the same time there is a charge to our hearts you must believe this you must claim this. That's what a conclusion is doing it's marshaling the forces of the sermon by saying here the thoughts we have discussed here's what the scripture has said today believe it act upon it exhortation is the next key component of conclusion sometimes this is simply called final application exhortation or final application we do not summarize simply to summarize but to marshal the forces for the appeal that we will make either to believe for action we're saying what concrete what concrete personal actions are you calling for from the hearer what do you want me to do now that to do may be behavioral or it may be what attitude no it's not always behavior maybe something to believe as well it typically includes some direction show me precisely what you expect of me now at the end of the sermon show me precisely what you expect of me and we're going to spell it out now briefly it's just just one or two sentences usually is this final exhortation it's not long here's an example a mere summary of a message would be to say something like this today we have seen that God is sovereign and he is holy and he is loving now that that's just summary you hear those key terms he's sovereign he's holy and he's loving now when does that become exhortation when you would say something like this because God is sovereign and holy and loving we can trust him even in times of our greatest difficulty he will never lose control and he will never stop caring and he will never lose hold on you fear not whatever you face for you have a God who is sovereign and holy and loving now it was just the change to the fear not right there's an imperative here here it's just I'm an imperative of attitude but I said what do you do with this information you're to apply it in some way to your lives in that final exhortation item c of conclusions there is elevation elevation there is some sense of climax here's thought and emotion are arriving at their greatest height if you're not moved in the conclusion it's unlikely that anybody else will be I hope you've heard even in the tonality that I've been expressing there's a sense of urgency in the conclusion it's not flat now it doesn't mean that it's always said with great bombast nor is it always said with very low tones you're saying what according your personality and the content of the message would mean the most to you and you're saying it as though it does that makes sense manner and content now are to be conforming manner and content coming together say what you're saying as though it has the meaning to you that you are trying to communicate two ways we typically do this so under elevation one is a human interest account that is poignant a human interest account that is poignant just be very straight with you those of you who are training to preach sermons in this culture you recognize again for men in this culture it is somewhat difficult to express emotion and so to say in your conclusion you are trying to be somewhat emotive here is where pathos is coming to help drive as it were the ethos and the logos what this means now but that's hard for us and so to identify those human interest accounts that have their own pathos that can poignantly drive home to the will and to the heart as well as to the mind what we have said logically in the message is typically very important in a sermon and the conclusion now if you don't do a human interest account there really is only one other basic type of conclusion no we went through about seven types of introductions really only about two types of conclusions one is a human interest account the others what's called grand style grand style grand style is not depending on the story to carry the emotive pathos it's depending on your manner to do it so it is heightened words and heightened manner that is saying this is very important listen to me you must walk away with this truth you're not telling a story but the words that you choose and the way that you express them are expressing the urgency of the moment so that is called grand style and having those two in mind will typically help you through now I will tell you if you're not used to a lot of public presentation grand style may feel awkward to you but telling a story about people who are dearer important to you will not be awkward at all you'll feel the power of that and it won't be strange to so most of you probably will choose to do human interest accounts when you start out but grand style becomes an option that's very important as well and typically even when we're telling a point of story if it's touched us there will be elements of it that are also towed with a certain amount of pathos as well the last part of what's involved in conclusions is termination termination that is they have a purposed pointed definite and what do you want people to walk away with that's what you want to end with should have a fair amount of purpose to it the marks of effective conclusions when we pulled these things together first uniqueness how many conclusions are there in a sermon a good sermon one did you ever go to a sermon you thought he was done and then suddenly we're off again you know it's the back porch on the back porch you know introduction you know it can be a porch on a porch sometimes conclusions can have a back porch on a back porch well the best the best conclusions arrive in emotion and termination at the same time so they're unique there's only one conclusion obviously conclusions have climax they have climax if we talk the emotive intensity of a message remember this is the highest emotive intensity of the message see they have resolution they have resolution we began the introduction saying what is the burden of the message right that's that fcf what's the burden of the message that appears in the introduction the conclusion is telling people what we identified as the burden we have dealt with the word of god has dealt with the burden that we identified so we are bringing resolution by showing how the burden is being dealt with now the mark of effective conclusions is finality finality that is they arrive on time and do not wander off

again sankster is so good here he says it this way having come to the end stop do not cruise about looking for a place to land like some weary swimmer coming into the beach and splashing about until he can find a way out come right in land at once finish what you've said and end at the same time now then this good pastoral qualification if the last phrase can have some quality of crisp memorableness all the better but do not delay even looking for it you know great if you can end telling but but it's still better to end than to wander about kind of looking for a better way to end so it's just an idea of finality will help all of these things are of course telling us that conclusions need careful preparation right they're the most telling thing they have these basic components but very soon you will find that people will not remember though we cannot fail to do it for reasons we'll see shortly they will not remember much of the meat of the message they will remember telling conclusions they really will and it will become very powerful so these have to be prepared with a great deal of care some cautions for conclusions as you hear now their components you'll already recognize some of these one caution for conclusions is consistent emotional rhythm once you begin to recognize is the place for pathos it can be a place for manipulation you know that they know that everyone knows that are you still being authentic I had the sadness in some measure of being in a pulpit where there had been a man a pastor who prior to me who had been in that church for 50 years so that was great the difficulty was over the last 15 years of his life he cried in every sermon now I was there some 15 or 20 years after and the people still laughed about it every sermon was that kind of weeping pastor and it was in their minds manipulative now what makes it authentic what's in your heart it was said of moody he was one of the few people who could legitimately talk about hell because he truly weaped that people would go something was authentic in the way that he preached that people knew that he really cared and when he did not weep every time but when he did weep it was genuine somehow we want again for manner and content to come together sometimes that means we will in the conclusion speak with great almost anger this must change other times we will speak with great tenderness this must change or we will be deeply deeply hurt manner and content coming together but somehow that manner has to be reflective of what we're saying so consistent emotionalism is a problem absent emotions are also a problem right absent emotions are also a problem second major caution do not trail off do not trail off once you begin even doing these devotions you'll find that you know your heart pumps and your breath goes you perspire and all those things that are just part of being in front of people but when you're doing it for 30 minutes or 35 or 40 some of you in your churches I recognize that what will happen you will it is inexercise it is tiring typically when I preach by the time I'm just gonna buy my body works my back is soaked with sweat almost always it is an extra you're taking a lot of breath to project adequately you're you're gesturing you're you're kind of thinking hard and you're working hard and your body is also into what you're saying so when that begins to happen there is the tendency at the end simply to be tired and to begin to say all poignant things this way I really mean it and everything gets whispered and put up high and the message just has the sense of winding down but you're saying the most important things so there should be almost an electricity in the conclusions again I'm not talking about bomb bass and volume every time that's sometimes appropriate but there should be a sense of this is the most important thing and that you are doing that so that you're not trailing off see just a hint for those of you trained in other public speaking modes ordinarily there is no final thank you we do not say and therefore God says this gossip must stop and it must in this church thank you very much no we don't say thank you we do it public address but we do not say thank you at the end of sermons okay uh omens now it depends a little bit on the generation and even the church you're in for a young man in churches today to say and this is what you must do amen almost sounds as though you're congratulating yourself you know a little panel in the back there my own amen to me now there are churches I recognize in which the amen means something like this is what God has said and I'm saying with great confidence to you because I have spoken with the authority of the word of God but I even if you were doing that I don't know that I would do it every time so I'd be cautious about the amen that seems to be self benedicting okay as opposed to I really had to say this this day did let the conclusion conclude let the conclusion conclude sometimes you have the thought well you know I don't really have to come up with a good conclusion because we're going to sing that great song afterwards or I'll just think of something to say in the final prayer do you ever hear the final prayer and you know what the preacher was really doing was saying the third main point that he forgot in the sermon now if you got to do it you got to do it but it's not the way to plan okay so um we we sometimes will know that there are things we want to drive home with a concluding prayer or the song but it's usually not a good idea to plan for those to carry the sermon all right so we let the conclusion conclude eigh what I'll ask you to do this semester and next we will avoid rhetorical questions as concluding sentences we will avoid rhetorical questions as concluding sentences please do not make your conclusion the last sentence in particular a question and so what we just see is that the cycles follow Jesus and what does God call you to do well I don't know what you know uh often rhetorical questions come because one could not think of what you wanted people to do so we ask questions instead now technically there are things that are called meudic questions which actually are a question that are directive but let's not do it yet okay for this semester next let's just not end with questions we know they can be important but we're not going to go there yet f use poems and quotations with great caution we really are not the generation that appreciates so much three points in a poem you know that's that's really past generations it's not that you would never do it but I'm cautioning you it people will almost grimace these days for sermons to end that way if you do end with somebody else's quotation or poem please use it only if they say exactly what you mean not almost what you mean if they say exactly what you mean recognize that the change of voice and meter in language if you're using an ancient poem or ancient quotation actual throw people off you know we're not a very patient generation for language we don't understand so right here at the conclusion where you're trying to drive things home you begin to use archaic language the very time you want to say the most important things people are just turning you off prepare the audience for what you're intending to do with the quote we've said that before if you're going to use a quick quotation please tell them what to listen to try not to break eye contact now just think of that I've got to the point of this message when I'm saying this is the most important thing I want you to hear me and then I start to read to people break eye contact and look down it's probably not what you want to do the main question you have to think about is do you really want to give the last word of this sermon to someone else who hasn't lived among these people they don't know this person do you really want to give the last word to someone else now it's very controversial maybe you do but most of the time I would caution you against simply borrowing from another time unless again that person says it's so much better and it really will make a stronger impact than you yourself concluding G is very important do not introduce new exposition in the conclusion it's very easy to say now of course we know this is true because this is a present tense verb the conclusion is the wrong time to be starting with new definitions new exegesis new reference to another biblical text it's the wrong time to be doing it's not wrong to do but not in the conclusion the conclusion should be concluding not starting something new finally avoid finally now I was in your readings but let's tease a little bit so we're clear about it if you say in conclusion what does every third person the church automatically do they look at their watch you just gave you just created what a hamlet tissue would call linear consciousness okay you you put time in front of them when you said finally in conclusion now I will grant you if they have given up all hope that this sermon is ever going to end that sang finally and you'll see people's heads will come up you know oh there's hope you know you will you got to you got to right it can be a technique but you should be aware that if you don't got to you may be creating dynamics you do not intend do you remember from it was in your readings but I just love the quotation from audio white when he said it this way finally brethren can be said by an apostle and he can keep going for two more chapters but you shouldn't a troubled English pastor once asked a farm laborer why he came to church only when the assistant preached well sir said the farmer young mr. Smith says lastly and he does conclude you say lastly and you last well in conclusion should be concluding hence for effective conclusions how do we do this well hence for effective conclusions first use a human interest account if you can use a human interest account if you can he will tie up the sermon in not only terms of emotion and poignancy but people will strongly identify with these human interest accounts so it's just a very very strong way of having people identify as well as hear the importance of what you're saying to say quickly again what's the other form of conclusion if not human interest accounts what's the other one called grand style okay but if you can human interest accounts typically are strongest just a hint here put illustrations of the b put illustrations of the last main point high in that point so it's not competing with the conclusion put the illustration of the last main point high in that point now you can just if you can see it visually I'll move this so you all can see if you can see this chart here if this middle piece here is the illustration what happens if that illustration is just very you know you've got a short application here what happens if that illustration is very close to the conclusion and the conclusion as a human interest account what happens you steal impact right you create you create what's called anti climax you're actually taking away from the climax by having this story too close to that story remember we've said these pieces can flip and move about the third main point is usually a point where it's helpful to move the illustration as high as possible so if you've got two sub points maybe you'll put the illustration after the first sub point so that you're creating separation from the illustration of the conclusion not again these are just hints these aren't rules they're just thoughts to consider as you're thinking do I want to create anti climax do I really want that human interest account of the conclusion to have a real power of its own and not have it too close to other stories we've already talked about recognize the power of ending with a telling phrase telling phrases are important to end with if you can telling phrases are important to end with if you can again I'm not saying you would always do this anybody know how the sermon on the mount of Jesus ends one of the last words in the sermon on the mount you'll know immediately when you hear fell with a great crash whoever hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house upon the rock and the rains came and the streams rose and the wind beat against that house but the house on the rock stood firm whoever hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand and the rains came and the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house and that house fell down with a great crash period ended the sermon on the mount a event somebody says well these are not new ideas right these are just the way people think and take in information in oral mediums and so we see what that means even for Christ time we've already talked about the importance of ending where you began instead of something we would use would not use every time but a wrap around conclusion is often powerful that we end where we began we finished the telling of the story it's called a wrap around so we end where we began can be a helpful hint finally a last thought for conclusions is to try to end with a positive it's to try to end with a positive after all it is the gospel it is the good news why did Jesus end the sermon on the mount with the great crash because it is the last rendering of the law and he has showed people you cannot live up to this now what's he going to be about the answer to the great crash now his ministry unfolds but we know that ministry so if we end our sermon saying and if you do not do what I say you are all going to be in trouble and this church is going to ruin let's pray it is the good news and I think to take the impact of the gospel and make that what is your hope and encouragement to people is the greater strength of the sermon okay some concl- Aaron yeah right did you hear Aaron's question if what if the text doesn't mention Christ or his redemptive work how can we end with the gospel with the positive you know we're going to spend a whole semester talking about that but the key right now is to say context is part of text context is part of the text so identifying how this text functions in his redemptive context what did I say about the sermon on the mount it's the last rendering of the law now I can see it in his context if I put it in its context I can be saying again to say how it functions redemptively so that is not isegesis that is identifying where it fits redemptively now we're not going to answer all this today right it's the last half of the book that we're not even going to read this semester so we got lots to go but the fact that you're feeling the weight of that is really really good because Jesus said apart from me you can do what nothing so if all our message has been is moral imperatives we got a problem we have to put the text in its context and that will always be a redemptive context let me just make sure this gets in front of you for today some conclusion on conclusions here's what we're going to look for as you turn in your assignments a week from today and come prepared to deliver them again right here's what we'll look for concise summary concise summary it may be threaded or grouped okay maybe threaded or grouped I think it could be and or could be both okay but we'll look for some form of concise summary in which the key terms of the magnet clauses of the main points are appearing in the conclusion okay we'll look for that key terms of the magnet clauses of the main points we'll look for some form of climax is there a sense of emotional intensity three we'll look for final exhortation final exhortation are you telling me now what to do or believe or hope in is there an exhortation that's that is part of the conclusion typically it's the last two second two sentences are right in there it's typically where that final exhortation comes and then for is there a definite end did this seem to have some sort of professional design to it did it definitely end and we were ready for that end didn't surprise us nor did it seem to wander off for the written assignment you see it says written assignment number five it says for class after next now again just because of where the preaching lectures fall this semester we really mean our next class meeting right so not next Wednesday that will be the preaching lectures day but Friday a week from today you're going to prepare an outline with sub points followed by a conclusion now this particular time I'm asking you to do human interest account only all right so you do know it will be a human interest account conclusion do it for the passage for which you previously assigned to do the outline introduction so just keep building right so now you're going to do a conclusion for the mature that you've done before come to the class after come to the next class for this class prepare to present your conclusion the written conclusion should be a half to a two thirds page single spaced and look at the example in your notebooks if you want to say kind of how long is this thing so two thirds page or so half to two thirds page single space and should last no longer than two and a half minutes in delivery that's actually a pretty long one two and a half minutes is pretty long so it shouldn't go longer than that now please note the last bullet underline the key terms of the magnet clauses of the main points that are used in your conclusion so what I should be able to do as I'm going through these papers is I should see you've underlined from the magnet clauses on the sheet that you're turning in will have main points and sub points you should have underlined the magnet clauses of the main points not the sub points underlined the key terms of the magnet clauses of the main points and then I should be able to look into your conclusion and see you've underlined them there too it's it's your hint and mine that you've brought those key terms down all right so that's due a week from today and you should come prepared to present them here's what will happen will again ask people to come up front and present them and I will ask to what's your passage tell us what your main points are and then present your conclusion so we'll all have our ears tuned for what the conclusion says now if you do wrap around which are not wrong to do you may have to tell us in my introduction I said some of these things you know you have to get a little bit of a story in front of us if you're doing a wrap around conclusion but if you're not doing a wrap around just you know go right into what that conclusion is after you've told us the main points