Preaching
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Are You Feeding The Sheep or Bleeding On The Sheep?

One of our readers, C. Johnson, wrote a perceptive comment which reads in part:

To a large degree, what is said, heard and done (in the pulpit) is all prepackaged. Even the words that are used, are for the most part scripted long before a text is exegeted and expounded.

and further

Too many who populate pulpits reduce the Bible to the script of the people we serve and as a result, lead them into both mediocrity and blindness.

Using the Pulpit to Beat our Enemies

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blog / Sermon Construction / Preaching

Telling the Story and Making Your Points while Preaching

In the African American Preaching Tradition the ability to “tell the story” is highly prized. It is also helpful when preaching to any ethnic group. There is something about stories that captures the imagination of the hearer in ways that no other method can. Stories grab the people and place them in the Bible story as they recognize parts of the story playing out in their own lives. Stories are powerful especially Bible stories.

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Preaching Methods / Preaching / blog

Prostitution of the Black Preaching Tradition – Style but no Substance

The Black Preaching Tradition is a great gift to the larger Christian world. Many acknoweldge the vibrancy and the power of great Black Preaching. I also marvel at the improvisational genious of the great preachers in that tradition. While we accept this great gift of the African American church, we also must acknowledge that there are some who are today abusing this gift by taking it and preaching a Gospel that does not take into account the full counsel of God.

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