Find it difficult to persuade your readers with the blog you are posting? Then you better try another technique, not the ‘gift or reward’ system, but the preaching structure. (Huh? Are you serious? I’m not a preacher!) You may say this is funny but this is much appropriate to use if you are really chasing towards popularity. Want to try? Get reading with this…
Sermon… what does it mean?
A sermon is an oration by a prophet or member of the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical, theological, religious, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law or behavior within both past and present contexts. Elements of preaching include exposition, exhortation and practical application.
Preachers have successfully delivered their message through this, and this was a booming method they obviously use to reach out worshippers. So why don’t we employ this as a blogging technique? This would be very much helpful.
What includes the sermon that we need to follow?
Theme
This is absolutely the introduction about the topic you are going to discuss with your readers. I know it’s very difficult to start writing when you actually cannot be able to put your ideas into words. With a subject in your mind, you could easily start conversing what you wanted to say: how to start, how arguments are discussed and the conclusion to be made. Preachers’ starts their speech with a theme, and it duly serves as the framework for the conversation to run smoothly; same with blogging, a theme may be very clearly serve as the conduct for the blog post you are going to share with.
Protheme
If a preacher is actually enclosing their speeches with a quote taken from the Bible, well, you as a blogger could also use this strategy. Like what I said in my article, “Quote your Readers Away”, a simple quote is used as a preface to get your readers attention. Well, of course I am not telling you to dig up some verses in the Bible, for as we all know, divine messages of the Bible are not for worldly use. You must have the appropriate sources of quotations you will use like books, speech from a known person, news, or even from another blogger. Any kind of literature will do, except from a Bible.
Dilation
In my article, “Short Posts Yet Satisfying Content”, I had pointed out that all blogs actually have its structure. If you are writing something without organizing your thoughts, tendency would be you can’t easily arrange the idea you wanted to share, thus, writing will be a tricky choice for you as a blogger. Just have the single theme for your write-ups, quote it away and expand it by supporting your ideas- this will duly serve as the structure for your blogs, and will be your framework you pursue along.
The Exemplum
This is actually the main course for this is the best part of the sermon. This is the section where the preacher provides the main content of his speech and the arguments he wanted his listeners to think and talk about. This may be of an innate topic- a real life story perhaps that could be easily supports the theme you had mention. This should be dependent upon the substances you will add up on your blog (“What is Behind Catchy Articles”); therefore, this should be the interesting part.
The Peroration
This part? Well, this is actually about the lesson worshippers acquired from the homily being given. What have you learned in the sermon? This is where you mention the main lesson for the blog and this is where the readers tells about the emotion exists between their minds. Is the sermon interesting, or is it boring? Have you enlightened your readers? Did you benefit them with the blog you posted? This section will readily answer these.
The Closing Formula
This is well, the last part, this section is where the preacher asks the people to do well and then bless them. But in blogging, this is the part where you are actually the one asking your readers to leave their comments about the blog they just have read. This is the key end, for readers have this choice to rate your blogs according to its contentment level.
Preachers are absolutely the first bloggers. If you are a blogger who, every now and then find it hard to start up what you wanted to write, then try to be preacher, not in front of people, but in your readers context. All you need to have is a single theme for your post, then by ‘preaching thy readers’, you can have now your framework and well, the best blog post. Try this dude!
Do you find it difficult to start everything? Then may be this sermon structure is worth for you. Tell me something about it by leaving your message below…
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