tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10020592.post115385852334901086..comments2024-03-21T12:32:39.345-05:00Comments on Frankly Speaking: Preaching, Great and "Dreadful"Frank Bellizzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07949066335378651585noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10020592.post-1153930074852345382006-07-26T11:07:00.000-05:002006-07-26T11:07:00.000-05:00The Church (and sermons) should bring God into the...The Church (and sermons) should bring God into the depths of our lives. As C. S. Lewis said, the goal is to make us "little Christs." Great preaching communicates Scripture in such a way as to make us aware of the living author (contemplating the Spirit) and to make us aware of where we are at that point in time (Larry Crabb calls this our Red Dot; like the dot on the directory map at the mall that says, "You are here").<BR/><BR/>Not to be too picky, I think it is much more important to ingest what has already been done to provide our salvation than to understand "what one needs to do to be saved."Leland Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09193219847631551978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10020592.post-1153927788708241632006-07-26T10:29:00.000-05:002006-07-26T10:29:00.000-05:00Thank you for the report from Bonhoeffer. I have ...Thank you for the report from Bonhoeffer. I have probably preached a few "dreadful" sermons!<BR/><BR/>I agree with him on the application stuff. I have been moving in the direction of less "obvious" and "simplistic" application. I feel a good sermon simply invites us as travelers into God's own narrative to be molded and shaped by kingdom values. Application of the narrative may vary with the different life situations we encounter but if I am shaped by a cruciform ethic then I will be acting "christianly". And that is the goal as I see it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for coming by my Stoned-Campbell blog. I hope you will come back by and join the conversation.<BR/><BR/>Shalom,<BR/>Bobby Valentine<BR/>Milwaukee, WI<BR/>http://stoned-campbelldisciple.blogspot.com/Stoned-Campbell Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00807468566670784346noreply@blogger.com