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Anchor Illustrations

What is an anchor image you've used recently that you found helpful? How did it carry the passage from beginning to end. Examples of these cases really help new folks see what anchor illustrations are and how they work.

I'll go first.

In a sermon on Psalm 51, I used the image of someone knocking on the front door while you're sorting dirty laundry in the den. What do you do? Hide? What if you could be free enough to open the door and say, "Come on in, excuse the mess."

This carried because I was able to come back to the image over and over, the emotional issues related to it, and the concrete action of opening the door.

The mess is real.

Confessing the mess is hard.

Jesus comes in to clean the mess for us.

Now, we can be real, confessing the mess but celebrating the one who bore the stench in my place.

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Anchor Illustrations