Expositor’s Class 
Week 6
Illustrations

Three basic purposes of illustrations.

1)	Windows, not seasoning

2)	Emotional Impact

3)	Memory Cues

TIPS

* Make sure your illustration illustrates (or aids memory, or assists godly affections)

* Variety

* Don’t introduce illustrations.  (“Let me illustrate that by telling you a story…”)

* Be slow to use yourself as an example of a virtue.

* If you don’t know a story to be true, don’t tell it as true.

* Make your illustration as short as possible.

* Think through your transition statement coming out of the illustration. 

* Never derive your point from the illustration!