Recovering the Sermon Pt. 2: The Sermon As Our Story
This is the second installment of the blog post series recapping the Rob Bell-inspired Preaching Workshop I facilitated recently. If you missed the first installment, you can find it HERE . When last we met, we were just about to touch on the idea of how the preacher can tap into the universality of his/her experiences to help a congregation begin to exegete the world with the same intentionality that they exegete the word. "There's a moment in all great stories where the word takes on flesh and blood..." - Rob Bell Great stories move back and forth between the universal and particular. They oscillate between them, creating tension and then releasing it. Take the television show Lost for example. The story of Lost oscillated between the stories of the group, together lost on The Island, and the individual stories of the castaways themselves. This back and forth movement between what was common to all, and what was particular to some ...