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Preaching that Shapes Our Destiny, Impacting the World

Preaching that Shapes Our Destiny, Impacting the World. 26 th United Methodist Black Clergy Women’s Conference Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Presenter August 5, 2014 Orlando, Florida. 21 st Century Cultural Homiletical Realities.

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Preaching that Shapes Our Destiny, Impacting the World

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  1. Preaching that Shapes Our Destiny, Impacting the World 26th United Methodist Black Clergy Women’s Conference Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Presenter August 5, 2014 Orlando, Florida

  2. 21stCentury Cultural Homiletical Realities • Size Matters (House churches, Community Ministries, Mega/Giga churches) • Cyberspirituality /Televangelism • Spirituality of Longing/ Prosperity Gospel • Social/Political Leanings (Influence) • Media Depictions

  3. Pervasive Technology • Explosion of social media • Texting, Tweeting, FB, You Tube • Holograms, 2D-3D Projections of Preacher • Webinar Services • Power Point, Movie Clips, Dramatic Presentations, etc. • Conference Call/ Skype Sermons • Collections of Sermons, CDs, DVDs, Websites, Television

  4. 21stCentury Preaching Challenges • Information-glut of information (approx 20,000,000 items per day generated) • Media-sensory bombardment • Truth-influence, opinion • Expectancy-life of preacher • Prestige-pressure from examples of others

  5. Critiques of State of the Art • Specialized language • Feedback not allowed • Moralistic • Objectification/ Thingafication of the Other • Pop Psychology • Neo-Charisma/ Charismania Bloodless sermons • Refusal to hear or know the listener • Selected information • Dissenters feel uncomfortable • Check your brain at the door, channel or website worship • Multimedia centered • Half-truths

  6. The challenge of the preacher is to open up conversation in his or her own preaching, so that members of the congregation can imagine their lives transformed and renewed by the possibilities of the biblical texts. Gail O’ Day Bible and Sermon: Conversation between Text and Preacher, SHM

  7. Interlocking Spheres of Performance To Make or Change Identity To Heal To Deal with The Divine and The Demonic To Entertain To Teach or Persuade To Make or Change Identity To Create Beauty To Foster Community

  8. What is “good preaching “ in your principle worship context? • How many times you have preached in a context different than your own denomination, race/ethnicity, geography? • Adjustments, positive/ negative experience • Is your preaching transportable?

  9. Dietrich Bonhoeffer • A concert audience does not come to watch a conductor but to hear the music; a church congregation should not come to watch or hear the preacher, but to listen to the Word of God.

  10. Considerations for Postmodern Preachers Point of Departure—your engagement of the preaching moment Theology Retrieval of history Ideology Social location-ecclesiology, community Political Cultural Epistemology-ways of knowing, assertions of truth, definition of reality Hegemony—authority, influence from others’ leadership Agency—self direction, determination, critique Praxis How do you define your reality?

  11. Language Power Sources • Oral-aural traditions • Vernacular • Ethnocentrism • Cross-cultural language • Dialect • Regionalisms • “in- language” • Age • Gender • Geography • Culture • Race • Class • Education • Comfort/preparation • Multiple language levels

  12. Womanist Homiletics (TLFB) • radical subjectivity • traditional communalism • redemptive self love • critical engagement • appropriation and reciprocity • Spirit love

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