2009
Kyung-Sook Lee
I Love To Tell the Story
Effective preaching begins with the preacher’s confidence in the authority of Scripture and the preacher’s conviction that God still speaks to people through Holy Scripture, that God anoints our preaching, and that through preaching, God acts in the hearts of listeners. Thus, effective preaching has been used to fulfill the central task of the church—making disciples of Jesus Christ—throughout the church history. To accomplish the central task of the church effectively in the world of electronic/oral communication era in which we are living, Richard Jensen argues that preachers need to prepare and deliver their sermons in Thinking in Story. In this thesis, therefore, I described a homiletic theory and methodology based on Jensen’s book Thinking in Story and my practice over the last three years to implement the Thinking in Story in preaching.