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1 online resource (292 pages) |
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Parables, and parables of growth: who has ploughed these fields before us? -- "I will watch over them to build and to plant": nature and nation in the world of Jesus' day -- "Consider the lilies": reading Jesus' agricultural parables -- "Not with plausible words of wisdom": preaching shaped by the cross -- "We speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen": homiletics as testimony -- "God's field, God's laborers": preaching as parabolic testimony to the grace of God |
| Summary |
Preachers mount the pulpit steps terribly burdened by the conviction that they are somehow responsible for the growth and spiritual well-being of their congregants. How, they ask themselves, can mere words communicate the reality of God, bring life to a congregation, or foster spiritual growth? This study argues that effective sermons function much like Jesus' parables--by bearing witness to divine power. Parables and preaching both testify to something beyond themselves: to a life-giving dynamic that far outstrips the force of words alone. Preachers are not go-betweens or gatekeepers for the kingdom of heaven: rather, they imitate Jesus by dying to themselves in the very act of proclamation, relying directly on God for their sermons to bear fruit. As well as offering a novel interpretation of Jesus' agricultural parables, Of Seeds and the People of God presents a Christ-shaped theology of preaching. Beyond exegesis or rhetoric alone, faithful proclamation is a question of spirituality, of preachers and listeners together yielding to God's gift of new life |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Parables -- Homiletical use.
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Jesus Christ fast |
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Preaching.
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Parables.
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Homiletical illustrations.
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parables.
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Jesus Christ's homiletical use of parables
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Homiletical illustrations
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Parables
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Preaching
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilson, Paul Scott
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| ISBN |
9781625648204 |
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1625648200 |
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