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F
allen Condition Focus
Mutual human condition that contemporary believers share with those to/for whom the
passage was written that requires the grace of the passage.1
Our fallen nature requires Scripture’s completion (1 Tim 3:16‐17).
What is the burden of the passage? Why was it written?
Examples of FCF:
• bad things people do (sin)
• uncertainty, grief, sickness (consequences of being fallen creatures in a fallen world)‐
How to Determine the FCF:
1. What’s the Big Idea? What does the text say?
2. What concern(s) did the text address? Why was it written then?
3. What do we share in common with:
a. Those to (or about) whom it was written or
b. The one by whom it was written
Identify a biblical burden you and your group share with those in the text:
• Open a wound to provide healing
• Identify a grief to offer comfort
• Demonstrate danger to warrant a command
• Condemn sin to cleanse a sinner
Create the longing and necessity for God’s means of help, way of escape, message of grace.
1
Bryan Chapell, Christ‐Centered Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1994), 42.
W
hy?
Why do I sin?
How do I obey? Î Why do I obey?
“The Why is the How”2
2
Bryan Chapell, “The Necessity of Preaching Grace for Progress in Sanctification,” All for Jesus, eds. Peterson
and Lucas, Mentor, 2006, p. 58.