Visionary preaching: equipping the congregation with the grace and power needed for change

Burns, Michael P.

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Visionary preaching: equipping the congregation with the grace and power needed for change

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Burns, Michael P. Visionary Preaching: Equipping the Congregation with the Grace and Power Needed for Change. McCormick Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7ab3c076-0597-481d-bfe8-289d80d34f87.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

B. M. P. Visionary preaching: equipping the congregation with the grace and power needed for change. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7ab3c076-0597-481d-bfe8-289d80d34f87

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Burns, Michael P. Visionary Preaching: Equipping the Congregation with the Grace and Power Needed for Change. McCormick Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7ab3c076-0597-481d-bfe8-289d80d34f87.

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Burns, Michael P.

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Abstract

In order to sustain a congregation in the turbulent waters of postmodern change, visionary sermons filled with images of God's grace and power must be proclaimed to lead people to imagine possible futures and enable them to make creative and faithful choices. While some homileticians have argued that preaching is in a state of crisis, I believe preaching is evolving according to a new understanding of our universe. Visionary preaching moves beyond the old linear models of preaching based on a Newtonian mechanistic model of the universe. Behind the chaos of our postmodern world, the pattern of God's grace and power are at work. Visionary sermons must use a chaotic model for preaching about and for change. This study examines how sermons which speak to both the upside and downside of change and use embodied images of grace and power, can demonstrate God's sovereignty in a world of random, non-linear change.

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