Interactive Preaching
As someone who enjoys preparing and delivering a fairly ‘traditional’ style sermon, it’s been fascinating to read some well-argued material on interactive preaching. There is a series of four articles under the heading ‘Alternatives to Monologue Preaching‘ on the Anabaptist Network site. The are:
1. ‘A Theology of Interactive Preaching‘ by Paul Warby;
2. ‘Interactive Preaching‘ by Stuart Murray Williams;
3. ‘Preaching As Dialogue‘ by Jeremy Thomson; and
4. ‘Throwing a Hand Grenade in the Fruit Bowl‘ by Jonny Baker.
Having just read those, this week’s Leadership Weekly email arrived, complete with an article on the same theme: ‘Glimpses of Glory‘ by Skye Jethani.
There are big challenges in these articles. Apart from the very obvious ones to preachers, there are major ones for congregations. For instance, many complain that sermons are boring, yet one logical step would involve changing the classic seating pattern from rows of pews or seats that imply passivity in response to the one(s) leading from the front.
It’s a bit late at night now for me to type any more, so I’ll throw this open for thoughts and comments.
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And it rather blows the romantic idea some traditional church members have that wearing ‘the collar’ makes you approachable to non-churchgoers. I’ve never known that in fifteen years. The best it gets is, ‘Hello, Father,’ from people I presume either to be Catholics or those searching for some way to be polite. I’ve never asked my female minister friends what reactions they get.
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