Backstory Preaching

Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

389 kr

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Instead of being a dour task on the checklist, what if the process of homily prep renewed you? Instead of feeling insecure about your message, what if your skills made you confident to preach a consistently clear message of Good News, authentic to you, relevant to your listeners, holding their attention and inviting transformation? Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft shows you how.By integrating your life and spirituality with the practical skills necessary for effective preaching, you can move beyond the boredom, stress, or insecurity of preaching so it is no longer you who preach but Christ who preaches in you. By connecting with God in the midst of your sermon prep, the Gospel will be spread deeper and further. God’s joy—and yours—will be made complete.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt249 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor172
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9780814645147

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ContentsForeword xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Chapter One: Preaching Isn’t Performance, It’s Prayer 9Chapter Two: An Effective Sermon 23Chapter Three: Know You’re Loved: The Gospel for Preachers 29Chapter Four: Lectio for Sermons 41Chapter Five: The One and Only 53Chapter Six: Meditatio for Sermons 79Chapter Seven: Preach, Come What May 93Chapter Eight: Oratio for Sermons 107Chapter Nine: Cultivate Wonder by Reading God 129Chapter Ten: The Preacher’s Trust 141

Long ago, Aristotle said that one of the three key ingredients in an effective communication situation is ethos, the listener's perception of the character of the speaker. Lisa Cressman goes significantly farther by emphasizing that the character, the person, of the preacher is formative for preachers themselves. We prepare for preaching by becoming people whose life is shaped by the gospel so that preaching is an authentic expression of who we are. The book helps preachers become aware in a critical way of the backstories that are at work in us and that inevitably contribute to our preaching, and she shows us how to deepen and broaden those stories through the practice of lectio divina.Ronald J. Allen, Professor of Preaching, and Gospels and Letters, Christian Theological Seminary