A Preacher's Tale
Explorations in Narrative Preaching
A Preacher's Tale
Explorations in Narrative Preaching
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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334056539
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 28/02/2018
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Many clergy receive little training in the arts of preaching and it is assumed that they will learn by gaining experience. The renowned American preacher Herbert O'Driscoll suggests that congregations do not want to be given a map showing them how to get to the coast, they want to be drenched in the spray.
Narrative preaching is a means of achieving such immediacy. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events.
A Preacher's Tale aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship.
Acknowledgements ix
Preface by the Revd Dr David J.Schlafer xi
Introduction xvii
1 The Cool of the Day: Preaching with Imagination and Plot 1
Genesis 3.1–24
2 Legion: Hearing Voices 7
Luke 8.26–39
3 The Certain Lawyer: Preaching the Familiar 13
Luke 10.25–37
4 Eli Seeing Clearly: Inhabiting a Character 18
1 Samuel 3.1–20
5 Pictures of Heaven: Preaching Possibilities 23
Revelation 21.1–6a
6 Peter and Jesus: Weaving a Background Thread 28
Matthew 16.13–28
7 Having Faith: Preaching a Slide-show 33
Matthew 9.9–13, 18–26
8 A Certain Ship: Playing with an Image 38
Matthew 20.1–16
9 Weeding: Ways of Seeing 43
Matthew 13.24–30, 36–43
10 Advent Stars: Preaching from Shared Experience 49
Matthew 2.2
11 Getting Ugly: Preaching the Peculiar 54
Mark 3.20–35
12 Don’t Do It, Lord: Preaching a Prayer 59
Luke 2.1–7
13 Luke’s Editor: Preaching Fiction 63
Luke 21.5–36
14 The Wife of Noble Character: Scene-shifting 68
Proverbs 31.10–31
15 Yearnings: Listening for the Unheard Voice 73
Ezekiel 36.24–28
16 Great Gable Remembrance: Finding the General in the Particular Psalm 121 77
17 Resurrection Story: Preaching Poetry 82
Matthew 28.1–10
18 Sarah Laughs: Panning Back 89
Genesis 18.1–15
19 Speaking in Tongues: Getting in on the Action 94
Acts 2.1–21
20 Pictures at an Exhibition: Inventing a Narrative 99
Matthew 13.31-33, 44-52
21 Naboth’s Vineyard: Preaching the Past into the Present 104
1 Kings 21.1–21a
22 Paul’s Sound-bite: Preaching St Paul 109
Romans 5.1–15
23 Five Husbands: Preaching Painful Stories 115
John 4.5–26
24 Grasping Rainbows: Preaching Questions 120
Genesis 9.8–17
25 Lord of the Dance: Preaching the Gospel More Than the Passage 124
26 Party Spirit: Preaching a Proposition 129
John 2.1–11
27 In the Beginning: Avoiding an Explanation 134
Genesis 1.1–2.3
28 A Christmas Journey: Preaching on the Move 138
The Christmas Lessons
Afterword 143
Matthew 17.1–8
Further Reading
Notes
'Jon Russell draws the reader into a multiple conversation - with the biblical text which he handles with immense respect; with the noble army of preachers who each week wrestle with recalcitrant sermons; with the contemporary world as it illuminates and contradicts the life of faith and with his own playful imagination, shocking, surprising, delighting and refreshing. This is a wonderfully stimulating book.' -- David Day
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