Listening with purpose: hearing your culture so you can preach for change in the twenty-first century

Dwain D Tissell

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Listening with purpose: hearing your culture so you can preach for change in the twenty-first century

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Dwain D Tissell. Listening with Purpose: Hearing Your Culture So You Can Preach for Change In the Twenty-first Century. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/40143391-9ec2-436a-84db-93b7260b3165.

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D. D. Tissell. Listening with purpose: hearing your culture so you can preach for change in the twenty-first century. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/40143391-9ec2-436a-84db-93b7260b3165

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Dwain D Tissell. Listening with Purpose: Hearing Your Culture So You Can Preach for Change In the Twenty-First Century. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/40143391-9ec2-436a-84db-93b7260b3165.

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Dwain D Tissell

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The purpose of this thesis is to give the Christian communicator a tool for exegeting the culture, called a Listener's Grid. The grid will take cultural synthesis a step further toward a practical use. What is found here will assist preachers in developing a Listener's Grid of their own. When this process is included in sermon preparation the cultural context into which the sermon will be preached comes into better focus. Communicators can then get a feel for the way in which the listeners will hear what is said. This process is meant to be a tool for use in more easily crafting life-application sermons. The process is meant to be customized for interpreting one's own cultural context. Once that is done the culture becomes a tool of communication. Culture can then be viewed as an asset in exposing the relevance of God's Word.

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