Over the last month I’ve been leading seminars at MEPC on how to preach. Preparing for them was both intimidating and rewarding. It was intimidating, because I’m only a novice preacher myself. I don’t have a wealth of experience to draw from. It was rewarding because I could draw on what I’ve been taught about preaching, thus refreshing and consolidating my own preaching. Over the next few days, I’ll put up some posts on what I said about application. It’s a framework which tries to make application compelling, motivating, persuasive. It’s an attempt to bridge that ugly ditch between head and heart, between information and transformation. I’d like your feedback on it. Ephesians 4:22-24: 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Application needs to be both...