1. Preparation:-
• deciding on your topic with you and God
• considering the audience and refining your topic to suit them. Youth, church, jail, streets.
• deciding on the purpose of the speech. What does God want to put inside people.
2. Introduction:-
• opening greeting and attention getter. Joke, story, deep thought, video
• defining your main statement (a summary of what your speech is about)
• an overview and the benefit to the audience
3. Body:-
• transition or link between introduction and body
• main ideas with supporting ideas
• examples and details personal and Biblical
4. Conclusion:-
• summary of main points
• closer or call to action

How to write a speech

Learning how to write a speech is a daunting task. Where to start?

The journey usually starts with a blank piece of paper and a few scattered ideas in your head. Here’s my first tip: That blank sheet of paper is your worst enemy, and will continue to be so until you take the first tentative steps to write your speech.

But wait! Don’t start writing just yet. PRAY DEPEND ON THE HOLY SPIRIT TO LEAD

Writing a speech is like many things. There is no single right way to go about it.

Like any earnest endeavor, there is only one place to start when planning a speech, and that’s with a plan from God.

I know that’s not what you wanted to read. It’s only natural to want to dive head first into your first speechwriting endeavor. In your mind you can see the words Ladies and Gentlemen forming on your blank piece of paper, but hold back.

By taking the time to develop a great plan for you speech, your planning efforts, not to mention your patience, will reap the benefit tenfold.

The purpose of planning a speech phase is to discover what you want to say what you ought to write, and what you should omit from your completed preaching.

Planning your speech well will also give you confidence every step on the way to your speech.

Talk like you write
Remember that you’re writing a speech, not an essay. People will hear the speech, not read it. The more conversational you can make it sound, the better. So try these tips:

• Use short sentences. It’s better to write two simple sentences than one long, complicated sentence.
• Use contractions. Say “I’m” instead of “I am” “we’re” instead of “we are.”
• Don’t use big words that you wouldn’t use when talking to someone.
• You don’t have to follow all the rules of written English grammar.
  “Like this. See? Got it? Hope so.” Your English teacher, Patty Jones  might be horrified, but people don’t always talk in complete sentences with verbs and nouns. So try to write like people talk.
• Always read your preaching  aloud while you’re writing it. You’ll hear right away if you sound like a book or a real person talking!

ASSIGNMENT

1. Prepare a 10 minute sermon. You must not go over time.
2. Be ready to do it next week.
3. Be ready in a few weeks to do it at church