Hopefully by now you have listened to our third brilliant podcast on preaching and are thirsting for more. Hopefully.
If I am to reiterate anything I think it would be honesty. We need to be honest with our congregation. This means sharing when we aren't sure about the text we invit the congregation to wrestle with us. It means sharing our doubts and our own confusion. This even means that there may be moments and times when we may not have a neat and tidy conclusion. Yet I believe people relate more with the honesty of the preacher than with the superior know-it-all answers of a preacher. We need to be honest with our preaching, our spirituality, and our whole lives.
I may be onto something with this honesty thing. Maybe I should start a speaking circuit where I call on people to stop the madness and be honest with themselves. Then they can rebuild their homes (lives) with honest materials (props to Six Feet Under).
I know Charley and I said we would post examples of the outlines we use to prepare our sermons and hopefully we will do that soon. While you are waiting, feel free to browse the books mentioned on the podcast:
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative by Hans Frei - see the previous post
The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation by Vernon Robbins
Sociology and the Jesus Movement by Richard Horsley
From Watcha Reading:
Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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