I just tried out the new Sermon Builder feature that generates sermon outlines. Open Sermon Building and choose the last tab to the right of the section on the right side of the window. You can enter a passage or theme and child on Generate, and it will give you some interesting info, including a sermon outline.
First, my feedback. I've only generated 2 sermon outlines from a passage. I used the same passage and generated two. Both were aliterated. I don't care for alliteration because usually, it makes communication less clear. No matter how hard you try 99/100 times, one of the 3 P words or 4 F words will be mangled to make it fit and less precise. I know many disagree, but you'll have to work hard to prove that alliteration really helps. I've done it, but I usually feel like I worked too hard to shoehorn when I could have created better sermon division statements if I focused more on application-based statements instead of alliterated statements.
I'd like to see a way to turn it off or say, "Regenerate the same outline without the worry of alliteration."
On a positive note, I like the parts at the top (Summary, Application, Teaching, How it points to Christ, Big Idea, Recommended study".
to make it easier, I post the example of one outline in a reply below.
Now, my concern. I say this to ask you preachers -- PLEASE DON'T LET THIS BECOME YOUR FIRST STEP OR WORSE YOUR PRIMARY TOOL OF sermon prep. Use it to help you understand a passage or, in a pinch, rarely as your primary outline to preach. However, sermon prep is important to the result.
I"ll get out from behind my pulpit now. 