META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN CHRISTIAN STUDIES & PREACHING · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Homiletics
The Preacher · in The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies
9 weeks of The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies: The Big Idea · Text to Sermon · Form · Structure · Illustration & Application …
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESREADING & WRITINGART & DESIGNMATHSCIENCETECHNOLOGY & TRADESCODING & AIBUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- A sermon “about grace” is like a store “about products.” A topic is a territory; an idea is a claim staked in it
- You have the idea
- The same Big Idea can be shaped three ways, and the shape decides whether the room is told, led, or taken
- A sermon is a journey with rooms, not a list with Roman numerals
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 The Big Idea → The Workshop — The capstone · The Preacher
ALSO IN CHRISTIAN STUDIES & PREACHING · THE CALL · PREACHING & CHRISTIAN STUDIES
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · The Big Idea → The Workshop
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1The Big IdeaTHE PREACHER
A sermon “about grace” is like a store “about products.” A topic is a territory; an idea is a claim staked in it. This week you build the one sentence your whole sermon serves.
WK 2Text to Sermon
You have the idea. Now the bridge from study to pulpit: three questions the text must answer before a room can receive it — and a purpose that names what should be DIFFERENT when you sit down.
WK 3Form
The same Big Idea can be shaped three ways, and the shape decides whether the room is told, led, or taken. Form is not decoration — it is the route by which truth reaches people.
WK 4Structure
A sermon is a journey with rooms, not a list with Roman numerals. This week you build the movements, write the doors between them, and earn the room’s attention in the first ninety seconds.
WK 5Illustration & Application
An illustration is a window — it exists to let light onto the point, not to be admired. Application is the road home. This week you learn to source honestly and aim specifically.
WK 6The Black Preaching Tradition
This week you study the tradition that made American preaching an art form — not as history appreciation, but as craft you will learn and use. It solved problems every preacher has.
WK 7Delivery
You can build a perfect sermon and lose it in the delivery. The body is not the sermon’s packaging — it is part of the message. The strongest word in preaching is often the one you don’t say.
WK 8The Calendar & The Occasions
One sermon is a skill; a preaching year is a stewardship. This week you feed a congregation a balanced diet across a calendar — and face the occasions where you get exactly one take.
WK 9The Workshop
Nobody becomes a preacher by reading about preaching. Growth happens in one loop, run over and over: preach, watch your own tape, receive critique, revise, and preach again. This week you run it.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The capstone · The Preacher
The question. What does The Preacher ask you to be able to do by week 9?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: The Big Idea · Text to Sermon · Form · Structure …
The evidence. Handed in through The Preacher inside The Call · Preaching & Christian Studies, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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