The Princeton Emergent Cohort will be meeting Tuesday, December 11th at 8pm. We'll be meeting at the Princeton T.G.I. Friday's in Market Fair Mall again. If you need directions, go here.
Last month we met with AKMA and discussed biblical interpretation in the church, and in the end, we touched on the significance of interpretation for preaching in the church.
I thought we should continue discussing preaching in the Emergent church for our December cohort. Solomon's Porch pastor, Doug Pagitt, wrote a book entitled Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith. In Preaching Re-Imagined, Doug argues that we in the church (and I'd add in seminaries like Princeton) have let "preaching" actually turn into something he calls speaching:
"The speacher decides the content ahead of time, usually in a removed setting, and then offers it in such a way that the speacher is in control of the content, speed and conclusion of the presentation." (22)Doug would prefer that instead, we move toward what he calls progressional dialogue...
"...where the content of the presentation is established in the context of a healthy relationship between the presenter and the listeners, and substantive changes in the content are then created as a result of this relationship." (23)In the second section of the book, he goes on to give a more detailed examination of his understanding of speaching, and then shares what he imagines preaching as progressional dialogue could look like. I have uploaded the second section of his book "Preaching Beyond Speaching" for you to read before our next cohort. It's in PDF form and it looks like a lot, but it really doesn't take too long. As our discussion will be based off of the selection, I'd encourage you to to at least read a few pages of it. I think you'll really like it.
Download the selection here.
Looking forward to seeing you there - please RSVP by leaving a comment here so I know how many seats to reserve. Thanks! See you all then!
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