A bridge should be a sentence or two, not a paragraph. Illustrations wield power when there is one direct step from illustration to application. I determine the bridge sentence before I develop the body of the illustration. The difference between poor and proficient illustrators is not the raw materials they come across, but how skilled they are at cutting these stones for the preaching task. Summer 1999, Vol.
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