Ebook: Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching

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? Leonard Sweet offers an alternative to traditional models of preaching, one that is fitting to a new culture and a new mode of thinking. --from publisher description.;INTRODUCTORY WORDS FROM THE LAB. Under the microscope : preaching in a Google world -- Blood and water : narraphor--the ars combinatorial of narrative and metaphor -- Blood work : making narraphors with EPIC -- "A+" POSITIVE PREP. Blood stream : scriptures -- Blood types and blood screening : deduction, induction, abduction, and transduction -- "B+" BLOOD 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 EPICtivities : pumping up preaching with apps -- Blood thinners : the role of humor -- "AB+" GOING LIVE. Blood supply : incarnation and culture -- Blood transfusions : infusing creativity -- Blood donors : congregational interplay -- Blood drives : the closure of altar/alter calls -- Blood vessels : sacramentality -- Blood chills and thrills : impact and delivery -- "AB-" DEALING WITH NEGATIVES. Blood clots : preacher's 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 -- "O" HOMILETIC MISCELLANY. Red-blooded realities : the preacher's humility and humanity -- Blood ties : learning from peers and relationships with colleagues -- Blood testing : interpreting effect and response -- FROM LAB TO LIFE. Life blood : food for the body -- Giving blood : salvation and resurrection.;This book is 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. - Publisher.