Book for preaching: Giving Blood by Leonard Sweet

A Groundbreaking Resource for Preaching If the church wishes to converse effectively with a culture, it must learn the culture's language. Today, shifts in technology mean that language is increasingly one of symbols and metaphors, stories and images---not words. So what does this mean for the sermon, that long-standing, word-based tradition of Christianity? In this ground-breaking resource, bestselling author Leonard Sweet offers an alternative to traditional models of preaching, one that is fitting to a new culture and a new mode of thinking. The first book of its kind to move preaching beyond its pulpit-centric fixation and toward more interactive, participatory modes of communication, Sweet presents both a challenge and a path forward for a church struggling to maintain its relevance in a post-modern, media-saturated culture.

Chapters include:
Part 1:  Introductory words from the LAB

• Under the Microscope Preaching in a Google World
• Blood and Water - Narraphor - Narrative and Metaphor
• Blood Work - Making Narraphors EPIC

Part 2:   A+ Positive Prep

• Blood Stream Scriptures
• Blood types and blood screening - Deduction, Induction, Abduction and Transduction

Part 3:  B+  Body Building

• Blood Flow -  bicameral preaching
• Blood Cells - Organic Architecture
• Blood bank - Narrative and Metaphor = Narraphor
• Blood Enriching Nutrients - Style and twist
• Blood and Guts - Passion
• Blood Pumping EPICitivites - Pumping up preaching with Apps
• Blood Thinners - the role of humour

Part 4:  AB+ Going live

• Blood Supply - incarnation and culture
• Blood Transfusion - Infusing creativity
• Blood donors - congregational interplay
• Blood drives - the closure of altar and after calls
• Blood vessels - Sacramentality
• Blood Chills and Thrills - Impact and delivery

Part 5 Dealing with Negatives

• Blood Clots - the preachers block
• Blood feuds and blood baths - handling criticism
• Blood Hematoma - avoiding bruising
• Blood pressure -  the nervous preacher
• Blood doping and bad blood - false props and bad leads
• Blood poisoning - dealing with heresies

Part 6 O Homiletic Miscellany  

• Red blood realities -  the preacher's humility and humanity
• Blood ties - learning from peers and relationships with colleagues
• Blood Testing - interpreting effect and response

Part 7 LAB to LIFE

• Life Blood -  food for the body
• Giving Blood - Salvation and ressurection

Reviews 

Frank Viola - a fresh paradigm for preaching

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