SPCK International Study Guide: A Guide to Preaching

by Bowen, Roger; Edwards, David L.; Gitari, David; Meldrum, Simea; Mombo, Esther; Ramachandra, Vinoth

• ISBN13: 9780281057269
• ISBN10: 0281057265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-31
• Publisher: Pilgrim Pr

Summary

A Guide to Preaching covers every aspect of the task of preaching, from planning a sermon that takes account of biblical, personal, church and liturgical background through to using stories, imagination, dialogue, drama, news bulletins and much more.

Table of Contents

Using this Guide	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(2)
Approaching the sermon	3	(13)
The text	4	(3)
The context:	7	(4)
The biblical context	7	(1)
The personal context	8	(2)
The church context	10	(1)
The liturgical context	11	(1)
Text and context: how they interact	11	(3)
The theme	14	(1)
Study suggestions	15	(1)
Building the sermon	16	(21)
The process	16	(1)
The congregation	17	(1)
The aim	18	(1)
A bagful of material	19	(1)
Illustrations	20	(2)
Stop!	22	(1)
Teaching	23	(1)
Use	23	(2)
Add/subtract	25	(1)
Style	26	(1)
The writing	26	(2)
The opening	28	(1)
The ending	29	(2)
Afterwards	31	(3)
Special note A: Using the lectionary	34	(1)
Study suggestions	35	(2)
What is preaching?	37	(15)
Some traditional views	37	(1)
The value of preaching questioned	37	(4)
Biblical words for preaching	41	(1)
Some definitions for today	41	(1)
The role of the congregation	42	(4)
A dramatic event	46	(2)
Special note B: A guide for assessment	48	(2)
Study suggestions	50	(2)
Indirect preaching	52	(30)
Stories	52	(2)
Imagination	54	(1)
Legends	54	(2)
Dialogue	56	(1)
Interview	57	(2)
Drama	59	(1)
Poetry	60	(1)
Music	61	(1)
Visual Aids	62	(5)
Posters	62	(1)
Symbolic action	63	(1)
Overhead projector	64	(1)
Features of local interest	64	(1)
Use of films	65	(2)
Using newscasts	67	(1)
The Sacraments	67	(3)
Special note C: An African story	70	(3)
Special note D: Rites of passage	73	(1)
Birth	73	(1)
Initiation	74	(1)
Marriage	74	(1)
Death	75	(3)
Special note E: The development of preaching in Europe	78	(2)
David L. Edwards
Study suggestions	80	(2)
Rhetorical skills	82	(15)
Winston Churchill, 1938	87	(1)
Martin Luther King, 1963	88	(1)
Martin Luther King, 1968	89	(1)
Allan Boesak, 1990	90	(1)
The dangers of rhetoric	90	(2)
Special note F: Women's ways of preaching	92	(3)
Esther Mombo
Study suggestions	95	(2)
Interpreting and using the Bible	97	(23)
Language	97	(1)
History	98	(1)
Culture	98	(1)
Systematic theology	99	(2)
Speech and writing	101	(1)
The letters of the New Testament	102	(2)
The stories of the Bible	104	(2)
A note on parables	106	(3)
The two horizons	109	(1)
Prayer texts	110	(1)
Reviewing the process	111	(5)
Preachers' classes	116	(2)
Study suggestions	118	(2)
Preaching on a theme	120	(11)
Caring about justice	120	(5)
Reflections	122	(3)
David Gitari
Caring about creation	125	(4)
Integral Mission	126	(1)
Vinoth Ramachandra
The care of creation	127	(2)
David Gitari
Study suggestions	129	(2)
Preaching in the slums of Brazil	131	(8)
Simea de Souza Meldrum
False assumptions of Brazilian culture	132	(1)
Preaching to those excluded from the development of society	133	(3)
The effect of preaching in people's lives	136	(1)
The difference that preaching made on the rubbish tip	137	(1)
Study suggestions	138	(1)
Four sermons for reflection and evaluation	139	(20)
A Christmas Sermon	139	(4)
Karl Barth
Remembrance Sunday	143	(3)
A. A. J. Claridge
'The Rich Fool'	146	(6)
Martin Luther King
Unfulfilled Dreams	152	(5)
Martin Luther King
Study suggestions	157	(2)
The Last Word	159	(1)
Key to Study Suggestions	160	(4)
Bibliography	164