Here’s my take on preaching, and it is from John Locke. Even though the pulpit looks like a good place from which to make social and political argument, that is not its purpose. Where scripture speaks to an issue, movement or injustice we should speak but only as far as scripture and its meaning reaches. Here it is:
Preach the Word. For it has God as its author, salvation as its end and truth without mixture of error as its content.
I think it was the Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry who quoted the Magnificat about the rich sent away empty and then said, "That wasn't Carl Marx-- that was Mary!" Its radical.
The homiletical process is trustworthy. Currently living with a 15 yr old daughter who is angry at her current world a lot of the time. As I try to see things through her eyes, it brings a different light to what may have inspired Mary's song.
Love your reflections here! Blessings as you prepare to preach. Just start with the Mary image you're sharing here - what could possibly go wrong from there?
Here’s my take on preaching, and it is from John Locke. Even though the pulpit looks like a good place from which to make social and political argument, that is not its purpose. Where scripture speaks to an issue, movement or injustice we should speak but only as far as scripture and its meaning reaches. Here it is:
Preach the Word. For it has God as its author, salvation as its end and truth without mixture of error as its content.
The Word is political. Unless one stops reading the Bible, the exodus, and the conspiring powers that used the cross.
I think it was the Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry who quoted the Magnificat about the rich sent away empty and then said, "That wasn't Carl Marx-- that was Mary!" Its radical.
The homiletical process is trustworthy. Currently living with a 15 yr old daughter who is angry at her current world a lot of the time. As I try to see things through her eyes, it brings a different light to what may have inspired Mary's song.
Love your reflections here! Blessings as you prepare to preach. Just start with the Mary image you're sharing here - what could possibly go wrong from there?