Preaching with Empathy

<p>Preachers can find help from many resources to get the text right the structure right and the delivery right. <em>Preaching with Empathy</em> aims to help preachers and homiletics students learn to deeply understand and love their listeners in order to get preaching right. Preachers who profess a love for God Scripture and preaching but who lack loving empathy for the listener betray their three professed loves and limit their fruitfulness in ministry. This book teaches how to practice preaching in new ways incorporating a heightened awareness and empathy for the people in the preacher's community. Author Lenny Luchetti provides immediately useful tools all based on the foundations of scripture theology history and social awareness. Readers will learn to embody Christ for their congregations as they empathically love God and humanity.</p><p><br />This book is part of the successful Artistry in Preaching series edited by Paul Scott Wilson. Other books in the series include <em>Preaching as Poetry: Beauty Goodness and Truth in Every Sermon</em> by Paul Scott Wilson; <em>Actuality: Real Life Stories for Sermons that Matter </em> by Scott Hoezee; and <em>Preaching in Pictures: Using Images for Sermons that Connect</em> by Peter Jonker.</p><p> </p>