This month’s Preaching Matters video features William Taylor speaking about remedies for poor preaching.
The poorest preaching is that which purports to be biblical but instead is really our own thoughts draped over a biblical text.
It is doubly poor because it does not tell people the author’s purpose in writing the text, and then presents an idea of our own (which may be true in itself and even helpful) as something that needs to be responded to on the basis of biblical authority.
Sermon hearers, is what you’re being taught sounding like anything the original author intended his audience to hear and understand; or something that flows from the text in light of Jesus’ redemptive work?
Very helpful here is the process of listening to the text itself, instead of our own thoughts, or even the thoughts of interpreters and theologians past.
“The Bible is our theologian.”
We are simply listeners, learners and those who pass on.
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