Perspectives on preaching (in building up missional churches)
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Nel, Malan
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OpenJournals Publishing
Abstract
Preaching is considered to be a core ministry in building up local congregations. Within the
Reformed tradition this is even truer. The researcher has, over years, tried to discern certain
core ‘qualities’ of preachers and principles for preaching that will accomplish building local
congregations into missional units. Assuming that preachers are serious about leading
congregations towards true missionality, the article attempted to focus on a few of these core
criteria for both preacher and preaching. In doing so, the article drew mainly on the wisdom
of well-known preachers in the USA, wisdom that will be used to guide the researcher’s future
empirical study of preaching in the South African context. Prof. Müller, who is honoured
in this Festschrift, wrote his DD thesis on preaching and I hope that this will reconnect his
current work to his original research.
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Preaching, Congregations, Preachers, Missional local church, Listening and learning, Integrity, Vision, Meaning, Public involvement
Sustainable Development Goals
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Nel, M., 2014, ‘Perspectives on preaching (in building up missional churches)’, Verbum et Ecclesia 35(2), Art. #867, 9 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/ve.v35i2.867.