Serving the Word: Preaching in Worship (Elements of Preaching)

This book invites the reader to see how Gods word can become the crux not only of the sermon but of the worship service as a whole. Over the past half-century worship scholars have found a substantial ecumenical worship pattern in Lukes story of Jesus post-resurrection appearance on the road and at the table in Emmaus. In that word-and-meal structure the relationship between preaching and worship as distinct aspects of liturgical experience breaks down. The preached word then and the liturgical event within which preaching is located become integral to each other. This book invites the reader to explore how-through Gods word-preaching informs and is in turn supported by the worship event as a whole.