KYFITT (Keep Your Finger in the Text) Workshop

You know you should preach Christ from all Scripture. But how do you get from your text to Christ without leaving the text behind?

Open-air preaching demands that we preach the Gospel. But faithfully preaching Christ means more than finding a place to mention Jesus, attaching the Gospel to the end of a sermon, or repeatedly making the same jump from “you are a sinner” to “you need Christ.”

The preacher’s task is not to invent a road to Christ, but to observe and faithfully follow the road Scripture gives him.

Our focused “Where's the Gospel?” workshop is designed to help you recognize how the particular text you are preaching fits within God’s unfolding work of redemption and legitimately leads to Jesus Christ. Whether you are a newer preacher building a strong foundation or an experienced preacher sharpening your skills, you will learn not merely that you should preach Christ from all Scripture, but how to keep your finger in the text—all the way to Christ.

As an open-air preacher, you will be equipped to:

• Observe the road to Christ: Recognize Gospel connections arising from the text rather than inventing or forcing them.
• Trace God’s unfolding plan of redemption: See how individual passages belong within the larger biblical story culminating in Jesus Christ.
• Recognize different roads to the Gospel: Learn how Scripture leads us to Christ in different ways rather than making every text take the same route.
• Evaluate Gospel connections: Distinguish faithful, text-grounded connections from superficial, imaginative, or unwarranted ones.
• Avoid repetitive Gospel proclamation: Move beyond attaching the same Gospel presentation to every passage and allow the particular text to shape how Christ is proclaimed.
• Move from text to Gospel proclamation: Show your hearers not simply that they need Christ, but how this text brings them to Him.
• Apply what you are learning: Practice observing, tracing, evaluating, and proclaiming Gospel connections through interactive examples and small-group sessions.

Join us for “Where's the Gospel?” — Show Me the Road.

Don’t invent the road. Observe it. Follow it. Preach it.

Register today and learn to keep your finger in the text—all the way to Christ.

• Roadmap to Rhetoric 
• Steps in preparing our text.
• What's the point? 
• Determine the text organization to find the main point. 
• Where is the Gospel? 
• Pursuing gospel connections grounded in the text.
• Doctrine Matters
• How does Systematic Theology relate in our preaching.
• Preaching That Demands a Response
• How do we organize, apply, and articulate the message. 

Keep Your Finger in the Text Schedule

October 5, 2026– January 11, 2027

or

October 6, 2026 – January 12, 2027

"Where's the Gospel?"

Monday Morning 10:00 am CT/11:00 am ET

Tuesday Night 7:00 pm CT/8:00 pm ET

Online using: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/heathpucel

The cost for the class is $150. That's $12.50 per week.

Payment: Keep Your Finger  in the Text. 

 "I attended the George Whitefield Program in 2019 with Heath Pucel. This was my first training program I had ever taken part in with Sports Fan Outreach. Bill Adams asked me if I would liked to participate, and I honestly had no idea the depth of hermeneutics or homiletics taught or expectations of me throughout the program, but I agreed in good faith. With little knowledge of what lay in store for me, I was soon at the session, with a few sermon outlines. Heath and Bill assured me, that all would be well. After the enthusiastic lessons Heath taught and honest critiques of how to prepare sermons using correct presupposed hermeneutics. I was much more knowledgeable of sermon preparation and confident in expositing God's Word afterwards. I was in the right place to sharpen my homiletic skills with kind peers, who would love to see me handle scripture correctly. I would encourage the novice and expert to take part in these hermeneutical teachings with Heath."

-Sgt. Gary D. Purgason, NC

 "I think the George Whitefield program was incredibly informative and useful for biblical study. I was probably taught by Heath Pucel, as well as the others in attendance, so much more than I was expecting. It was like my eyes were kind of opened up and I realized, at least to some degree, how little I really knew about the Scriptures. I would highly recommend attending a program like this or receiving teaching from Heath. It was a great time to learn how to more than just preach, but how one ought to study Scripture. Although, it might be said that what we learned there was barely scratching the surface, with so much more to learn. The program, though it didn't last a super long time, seemed to teach me so, so much. I think I would even consider going again if it worked out. I believe it'd probably be very good if every follower of Christ received teaching like this, teaching on how the Scriptures should be read, interpreted, etc.  It was a long week full of a ton of information and learning, but I think it was well worth it.  I was blessed to be able to go."

-Everet Slaughenhaupt, CO