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Reading the dissertation of Dr. Jason K. Allen. I could not even make it through the first paragraph without being overwhelmed by the task God has ahead us who are ministers of the Gospel! Here is how he starts: Charles Spurgeon, the preeminent preacher of Victorian England, famously exhorted a candidate for ordination to find a route to preach Christ from every passage of Scripture. Spurgeon implored, Don’t you know, young man, that from every town and every village and every hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to London? So from every text of Scripture there is a road to Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, now, what is the road to Christ? I have never found a text that did not have a road to Christ in it, and if ever I do find one, I will go over hedge and ditch but I would get at my Master, for the sermon cannot do any good unless there is a savor of Christ in it. The homiletical ethos that Spurgeon conveyed to the young minister is straightforward: the call to be a Christian preacher is, at its heart, a call to preach Jesus Christ from the entire Bible. Furthermore, he argues any preaching that either wittingly or unwittingly fails to preach Christ is sub-Christian in presentation and insufficient in its attempt to deliver the transformative message of the gospel. -THE CHRIST-CENTERED HOMILETICS OF EDMUND CLOWNEY AND SIDNEY GREIDANUS IN CONTRAST WITH THE HUMAN AUTHOR- CENTERED HERMENEUTICS OF WALTER KAISER by Dr. Allen
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:28:03 +0000

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