The Revolution of the New Way of Preaching - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

About This Presentation
Title:

The Revolution of the New Way of Preaching

Description:

New Vision: lead the ... Biblical illiteracy ... a Forgotten Mentor Dependence on the Power of the Gospel The Preacher s Captivity to the Word of God The Preacher ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:172
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 34
Provided by: PeterRh2
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: The Revolution of the New Way of Preaching


1
The Revolution of the New Way of Preaching
  • Craddock, Lowry, Buttrick

2
(No Transcript)
3
Old Wineskins for Preaching
  • Conceptual Method an argument in support of an
    idea
  • Development by a Series of Points
  • Model of Rational Persuasion

4
Old Style Preaching Result of Several Factors
  • 1. The linear way of thinking from the printing
    press
  • 2. Aristotelian Rhetoric original narrative
    preaching of 1st century corrupted by
    Aristotelian model in 2nd century

5
Deductive and Inductive
  • deductive movement is from the general truth to
    the particular application or experience while
    inductive is the reverse Craddock
  • The minister says all men are mortal and meets
    drowsy agreement he announces that Mr. Browns
    son is dying and the church becomes the church.

6
New Vision lead the congregation to experience
the dynamic of the text
  • A hearer oriented homiletic
  • (think Craddock)

7
CREATIVE VISION
  • Invite the congregation to participate in the
    preachers journey of discovery and draw their
    own conclusions (postmodern?)

8
For Craddock, that Homiletical Genius
  • Two Eureka Moments (when you discover the thrust
    of the passage when you envision the strategy
    for preaching it)
  • Two Chairs the analytical chair the intuitive
    or imaginative chair

9
What is the text doing?
  • The text may be lamenting, praising, singing,
    criticizing, blessing
  • Then why not design the sermon to imitate the
    text and do what it does

10
So
  • Be indirect
  • Use story
  • Leave it unfinished, inviting the hearer to
    complete
  • Dont use points but have a point, a destination

11
PREACHING AS STORYTELLING
  • Christians are people who know some stories and
    tell them to others
  • Buechner in The Magnificent Defeat
  • The models for preaching as storytelling are in
    the Gospels themselves (Amos Wilder, Early
    Christian Rhetoric)

12
AFRICAN AMERICAN PREACHING
  • IS IMAGINATIVAE, NARRATIVE AND PRONE TO GENERATE
    EXPERIENTIAL ENCOUNTER
  • Henry Mitchell
  • MLK told the story of a people

13
Question after Black Sermon
  • CAN THE PREACHER TELL THE STORY?

14
Three Important Emphases of the Revolution
  • 1. Inductive Approach (movement to a point rather
    than from a point)
  • 2. The Sermon Design itself a narrative
  • 3. A favored attitude toward Narrative texts

15
(No Transcript)
16
Lowrys Contributions
  • doing time in the pulpit
  • Freedom in the pulpit
  • Participatory
  • The beginning should upset and create a
    homiletical bind
  • Preaching must dare to dance on the edge of
    mystery
  • Sermon should be a plot, an evocative event

17
The Lowry Loop
  • 1. Upsetting the Equilibrium OOPS
  • 2. Analyzing the Discrepancy UGH!
  • 3. Disclosing the Clue to Resolution AHA!
  • 4. Experiencing the Gospel WHEE!
  • 5. Anticipating the Consequences YEAH!

18
Outcome
  • Has found a hearing
  • Makes a Lasting Impact on Preaching
  • Has rooted the Sermon in the experience of the
    Text

19
(No Transcript)
20
But more is needed than narrative form
21
Limitations of the New Way of Preaching
  • 1. Works best in a Christian culture with hearers
    immersed in the Christian tradition. Biblical
    illiteracy grows. Congregations are more shaped
    by the values of a secular culture
  • 2. The Church finds itself in exile, surrounded
    by a culture of consumer capitalism, moral
    relativism, narcissism

22
Critique Continued
  • 3. Focus on technique (form, design, strategy)
    to the neglect of a larger theological agenda
  • 4. Tendency to Ignore the other biblical genre,
    having found its model in the parable
  • 5. Hearers hearing only narrative preaching will
    have little grasp of the reflective dimensions of
    the Christian faith

23
And a few more limits
  • 6. Reluctance to speak with authority or make
    claims for change in the lives of the hearers
  • 7. The NT includes both story and rational
    persuasion. Even narrative gospels include
    discourses (as Mt.). We now realize that
    Aristotelian forms appear in the NT in the 1st
    century.

24
WHAT IS MISSING?
  • PAUL AND HIS LETTERS !
  • (21 of the 27 books of the NT are epistolary,
    not narrative)

25
(No Transcript)
26
Paul, a Forgotten Mentor
  • Dependence on the Power of the Gospel
  • The Preachers Captivity to the Word of God
  • The Preachers Awareness of the Larger Agenda of
    Preaching
  • James Thompson, Preaching like Paul

27
Preaching Paul in a Worship Service
  • 1. Witnessing to the Power of the Gospel.
  • a. So ponder how Paul saw manifestations of
    the power of the gospel
  • b. So look for the fulfilment of the promise
    in the concreteness of our lives

28
2. Since worship is a celebration (1 Cor. 58)
  • Worship should be reoriented toward a
    congregational celebration of the present
    manifestations of God
  • The the community of believers can perceive its
    vocation to the world
  • Daniel Patte, Preaching Paul

29
Preaching like Paul
  • 1. Should be pastoral (2 Cor.)
  • 2. Should be evangelistic (kerygma) the
    declaration of Gods saving events
    (Thessalonians)
  • 3. Should be deductive arguments that make a case
  • 4. Should contribute to he continued formation of
    community. Sermons are to churches and not just
    to individuals.

30
Fresh Pauline Visions
  • 1. Vision of a countercultural existence
  • 2. Vision of alternative values
  • 3. Vision of the transformation of a community
    into a holy people

31
Preaching as Remembering (Rom.1515)
  • Preaching in a non-Christian land in which people
    do not know the stories

32
The Better Way (1 Cor. 13)one thing that can
restore community
  • Your church may not face conflict over gifts but
    competing ministries
  • (We search for the better way) traditional or
    contemporary worship, social justice or
    evangelism, Bible study or action?
  • 2. (What matters is love)

33
3. (What is love?) (p 155)
  • 4. (Love endures forever) Duane Thomas asked
    how does it feel to play in the ultimate game
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com