Mark Driscoll explains how he prepares to preach. He asks himself 4 questions:

1. What does it say? - he talks about studying in the original languages, praying and meditating on the text.


2. What does it mean? - now that he knows what it says, what does that practically mean?


3. How or why do we resist it? - Since we suppress the truth (Rom. 1) we need to anticipate people's objections and dismissals of the truth we preach. This is where I think he starts to say some stuff that most preachers really need to hear!


4. How does this apply to our mission? - going beyond personal application to family application, and church application!

Here it from the Mark in a short video here.