{"id":282,"date":"2014-09-25T03:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T07:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:44","slug":"preparing-a-one-point-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/25\/preparing-a-one-point-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing a One Point Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When preparing a one point message I use\u00a0Andy Stanley&#8217;s approach laid out in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Communicating for a Change<\/span>. Here&#8217;s the five parts to cover in a one point message:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The ME section<\/strong>. In the ME section of the message you share how you personally relate to the topic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The WE section<\/strong>. In the WE section of the message you\u00a0share how the audience relates to the topic. In this section you want to\u00a0pose a question your audience wants answered, create a tension they need resolved, or point to a mystery they have been unable to solve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The GOD\u00a0section<\/strong>. In the GOD section of the message you share what God says in the Bible about the topic of the day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The YOU section<\/strong>. In the YOU section of the message you share what God says you should do in light of what he&#8217;s said.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The WE section<\/strong>. In the WE section of the message you paint a picture of what the church and\/or the world would look like if we all applied what we learned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When preparing an expository message I use a different method that I covered in my previous post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When preparing a one point message I use\u00a0Andy Stanley&#8217;s approach laid out in Communicating for a Change. Here&#8217;s the five parts to cover in a one point message: The ME section. In the ME section of the message you share how you personally relate to the topic. The WE section. In the WE section of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-preaching","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}