I make a habit of listening to Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas Texas. Dr. Haynes incorporates stories into his preaching very effectively. These stories are gleaned from various sources.
Category: Preaching Methods
Maurice Watson – Black Preaching Lectures
At this link you will find two lectures on Black Preaching and a sermon by Dr. Maurice Watson of Beulahland Bible Church in Macon Ga.
The lecture titles are as follows:
- Lecture: The Preaching of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- Lecture: The Contribution of African-American Preaching to American Christianity
- Sermon: Great Preaching of the Gospel
Robert Smith Lessons In Whooping
Here are 4 5-8 minute videos by Rev Robert Smith entitled Lessons in Whooping.
Sermon as Movement of Images
The next pattern described in Allen’s work Preaching Patterns is Thomas H. Troeger’s approach. In this approach you preach a sermon that is composed of images described verbally. You can see the method in his work Imaging a Sermon
Series of Images
Preaching from First Naivete to Second Naivete
The next pattern in Ronald Allen’s book entitled Preaching Patterns is the Moving from First Naivete’ through Critical Reflection to Second Naivete’. The idea comes from the hermeneutical theorist Paul Ricoeur. Here the sermon takes three steps.
First Naivete’
Preaching Patterns – From Oops to Yeah
The next pattern from preaching that we find in the book Preaching Patterns by Ronald Allen is Eugene Lowry’s pattern of a Homiletical Plot.
To Whoop or Not To Whoop – Musicality in Black Preaching
Whooping is one of the components of the Black Preaching Tradition that grabs the attention of many congregates and preachers.
Four Pages of a Sermon
The next pattern from Ronald Allen’s book Patterns for Preaching is Paul Scott Wilson’s approach described in his book The Four Pages of the Sermon The sermon under this structure is a manuscript with four distinct pages. Each page is a different approach to the materials.
Sermon as Journey to Celebration
The next pattern in the book Preaching Patterns by Ronald Allen is the Sermon as Journey to Celebration.
Biblical or Contemporary?
The Unashamed Workman teaches truth by quoting John Stott’s new book entitled The Living Church. Stott says in part:
But authentic Christian preaching is a bridge-building operation. It relates the text to the context in such a way as to be faithful to the biblical text and sensitive to the modern context. We must not sacrifice either to the other.
Expository Black Preaching?
Xavier Pickett over at Reformed Blacks of America has done it again. He has presented a concise attack on the status-quo from the perspective of the Black Preaching Tradition.
He states:
The goal of preaching is not expositional preaching, but rather to present and proclaim Christ as resurrected.
Preaching by Playing Words Like Notes
Kirk Byron Jones introduces the concept of “playing words” in his helpful book The Jazz of Preaching.
Aphorisms and Hesitation
Henry Mitchell notes that these two features of Black Preaching Style are not as dominant as other ones. Mitchell notes that aphorisms are common in all traditions of preaching, but aphorisms or “clever, pithy statements.”