If You Must Take Notes
This article is beneficial in understanding how one would take notes that is helpful. I don’t find extensive sermon note taking beneficial for me because I miss the point of the sermon if I just concentrate on filling in the blanks or taking extensive notes. Note taking (like extensive use of PowerPoint) tends to make the worship gathering into a class more than a worship gathering. Most disciples are betters served to try to use their imaginations and brains to remember the passage, theme, and point of the sermon, and then write it out at home or in one’s quiet time.
This article is beneficial in understanding how one would take notes that is helpful. I don’t find extensive sermon note taking beneficial for me because I miss the point of the sermon if I just concentrate on filling in the blanks or taking extensive notes. Note taking (like extensive use of PowerPoint) tends to make the worship gathering into a class more than a worship gathering. Most disciples are betters served to try to use their imaginations and brains to remember the passage, theme, and point of the sermon, and then write it out at home or in one’s quiet time.
This article may be beneficial in that it keeps you notes short and allows you to focus on the character God, on Christ’s promises and commands, and the Gospel that the preacher message contains.
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