October 1, 2007
In his book Telling Secrets, Frederick Buechner offers this definition of preaching:
Basically, it is to proclaim a Mysery before which, before whom, even our most exalted ideas turn to straw. It is also to proclaim this Mystery with a passion that ideas alone have little to do with. It is to try to put the Gospel into words not the way you would compose an essay but the way you would write a poem or a love letter - putting your heart into it, your own excitement, most of all your own life. It is to speak words that you hope may, by grace, be bearers not simply of new understanding but of new life both for the ones you are speaking to and also for you.
Posted by Brian Lowery at 10:24 AM on October 1, 2007
