Preaching Face-to-Face
An Invitation to Conversational Preaching
Published in 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-64065-076-3 (ISBN)
Description
* Useful as a text in seminaries The relationship between preachers and their hearers has changed a great deal since the old days of "three points and a poem." Hearers today are interested in engaging their preacher as a fellow traveler on the journey of faith. In fact, for many hearers, this engagement is the source of their trust in the preacher as a spiritual leader. Written by a noted preacher who has been selected ten times to serve on the faculty of the Episcopal Preaching Foundation's annual Preaching Excellence Program and as a presenter at many of their national or regional events, the purpose of this book is to assist preachers in understanding these shifts in what hearers need from sermons and equip them to prepare and deliver sermons under this new "conversational" model.
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MICAH T. J. JACKSON is the Bishop John Elbridge Hines Associate Professor of Preaching at Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas, where he has served since 2008. He earned a Master of Divinity degree at Meadville-Lombard Theological School, a Master of Theological Studies in Preaching at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and a doctoral degree in homiletics at the Graduate Theological Union. He is a member of the Academy of Homiletics, has presented at their annual meeting, and was a 2017 featured speaker at the Festival of Homiletics. He is a founding partner of Backstory Preaching, a source of online continuing education for preachers.