Category Archives: Archive
Speaking of Jewish people
Couldn't Help Noticing
Gaffes and GAFCON
Couldn't Help Noticing, Sola Panel
Uproar
Word Watch
FallacyWatch: Reading in your culture
Sharing the word of Christ in song
Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics
Review
Justification by faith
Interchange
The satirical Christian
Preaching and pulpiteering
Couldn't Help Noticing
I’ve never really been comfortable with the evangelical emphasis on preaching sermons, and never quite understood why we make so much more of this form rather than of other forms of teaching. It seems to me that the emphasis on preaching (that is, ‘preaching’ understood as ‘pulpiteering’, as opposed to private and personal ministry through, for example, conversation or Bible study groups) is hard to sustain from the New Testament. (more…)