Prescriptive preaching: preaching to the new generation of black churchgoers

Howard-John Wesley

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Prescriptive preaching: preaching to the new generation of black churchgoers

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Howard-John Wesley. Prescriptive Preaching: Preaching to the New Generation of Black Churchgoers. Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b1c3e228-0682-468c-986c-e01f18ee77ef.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

H. Wesley. Prescriptive preaching: preaching to the new generation of black churchgoers. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b1c3e228-0682-468c-986c-e01f18ee77ef

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Howard-John Wesley. Prescriptive Preaching: Preaching to the New Generation of Black Churchgoers. Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b1c3e228-0682-468c-986c-e01f18ee77ef.

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Howard-John Wesley

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There is a new generation of black churchgoers attending the new black church, a post-desegregation, pot-literate, post-Soul generation whose dynamics and sermonic expectations have also given birth to new homiletical methods. The goal of this project is to critically examine, define, and detail one of those new methods called 'Prescriptive Preaching' whose goal is to provide its listener with explicit and helpful actions, prescribed and exemplified in a specific biblical narrative, which empower and equip the listener to cope with a relevant life issue. This methodology is currently being successfully used in the preaching life of St. John's Congregational Church, a 1,300 member black church comprised mainly of this new generation of black churchgoers. Through reflection on the creation, delivery, and evaluation of eight project sermons, the integration of residency course work, and committed discussion on the same with St. John's members in a Parish Project Group this project seeks to discover and establish the guidelines, goals, theological, biblical, and homiletical foundations and exegesis, and preparatory process that informs the methodology of prescriptive preaching. The successful results of this project not only produce and present the entire methodology of prescriptive preaching but also disclose that prescriptive preaching is an effective and sensitive response to the dynamic changes and sermonic expectations of this new generation of black churchgoers that is rooted in the tradition of black preaching.

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