In the afternoon session of the Transformational Expository Preaching Conference, Colin Smith said, as an aside, that he has found three ways to meditate on a text that have been beneficial to him.
The three ways correspond to three types of Old Testament leaders.
First, you can meditate on a text as a prophet would, with truth in view.
Second, you can meditate on a text as a priest would, with the people in view.
Third, you can meditate on a text as a king would, with leadership in view.
Elsewhere, Colin noted that preaching must speak to the whole soul: mind, heart, will, memory, conscience, imagination. He said that the key to preaching that touches all the faculties of the soul is sermon preparation that engages all the faculties of the preacher's soul.
Brian Larson is editor of Preaching Today Blog and pastor of Lake Shore Church in Chicago.
Posted by Brian Lowery at 6:32 PM on August 11, 2008
