Will Willimon on preaching as theological act, and how, even though God has spoken his final word, he continues the conversation.
Why would the risen Christ appear first to these fearful ordinary men and women, his disciples, who had demonstrated so conclusively their failure to follow him and be his courageous disciples? why would the reset Christ not appear to some powerful, influential figure like Pilate or Augustus?
He came to the ones who had fled the conversation once the going got rough. He came to the very ones who had so disappointed and forsaken him, those whom he had so patiently taught and yet who had so patently misunderstood his every word. He came to them and said, in effect “Let’s talk. As I was saying…”
And thus was the church born, and thus were we all made witnesses of the resurrection and preachers of good news. The sermons were not over. They are just beginning.
And the conversation was resumed. …William Willimon, Proclamation and Theology,Abingdon Press, page 14.
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