Global Evangelism sermon illustration assignment instructions

Make a sermon come alive by telling a story from missions history

"One of the things that impacted me most in this course was researching a missionary for the sermon illustration assignment." -- John Holz, youth minister

Simplified grading rubric for this assignment. It can double as your checklist prior to submitting your story to Scribe.

The object is not to come up with a story around which a missions sermon would be constructed This is to come up with a story or analogy from missions history which could be used in a sermon on another topic.

1. Was the assignment submitted on time?
2. Does the submission meet the minimum length requirement?
3. Is it a story from the past history of global evangelism as opposed to being something from the Bible or else a relatively current happening?
4. Is there enough detail that the story would "stick" in people's memory with only one hearing of it?
5. Is the story told with little or no "here's the point" material?
6. Is the story told mostly in the student's own words with all direct quotes from other sources in quotation marks and the source identified?
7. Are three subject or topics listed for sermons in which this story or illustration could be used?
8. Most stories will need to be fleshed out with a little more detail than is given in the textbook or lecture. Is there a listing of all sources consulted?
9. Is the submission relatively free of grammar, spelling, punctuation and word usage mistakes?
10. In terms of achieving assignment goals, is this work exceptional, excellent, good, acceptable, minimal or inadequate?

Note: The course web pages on the official Nazarene Bible College site will contain expanded written instructions for this sermon illustration assignment.

    -- Howard Culbertson,

Searchable PDF of textbook

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Global Evangelism assignment instruction videos

"Welcome to course" video   Calculating grades   Reading reflections   Response posts   End-of-Week reflection   "All posts read" affirmation    Sermon ideas    NMI Central evaluation     My church's involvement in global outreach    Face to face mobilization     Missionary interview    Final exam

Global evangelism course resources:    Course home page     Attendance policy    Writing good response posts    Frequently Asked Questions    Connection problems    Incomplete work   Learning habits

Lectures   1. Biblical foundations   2. History   3. Culture    4. Strategy, part I   5. Strategy, part II   6. Nazarene missions

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