Speaking God’s Truth from the Inside Out
Dave McClellan
with Karen McClellan
Preaching by Ear: Speaking God’s Truth from the Inside Out
© 2014 by Dave McClellan
Lexham Press, 1313 Commercial St., Bellingham, WA 98225
First edition by Weaver Book Company.
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Print ISBN 9781683592167
Digital ISBN 9781683592174
Cover: Dale Pease | walking-stick.com
Editing: Paul J. Brinkerhoff
the most present person I’ll ever know.
Part 1: Preparing the Preacher
1. Something Old, Something New
2. The Wise Preacher: Augustine’s Homiletic
3. Baloney: Why We Trust Some Speakers and Dismiss Others
4. Quintilian: A Surprising Preaching Tutor
Part 2: Developing an Orally Based Model of Preaching
5. Why God Is Partial to the Spoken Word
6. Tongue before Text: Introduction to Orality
7. Finding the Sermon That’s “Already There”
8. Swallowing the Word: Building a Sermon Inside You
9. Going Off Script: The Internalized Sermon in the Live Room
I want to thank my wife, Karen, for co-laboring with me in all the wondrous and messy overlap of life and preaching and for her keen insight into both. My kids, Kelsey and Kyle, graciously sat through hundreds of sermons from a dad whose flaws they know firsthand. Kyle’s philosophical insights and editing in chapter 4 were particularly helpful.
I’m grateful also for my longtime friend and mentor, Kevin Huggins, who has been a source of grace and truth over many years. As another longtime friend, Cliff Staton has walked with me through thick and thin, and spoken truth to me with such compelling tenderness. Chip Weisel’s patient direction over many lunches kept me grappling with grace when I needed it the most. Knute Larson saw something in a young and brash youth pastor and graciously allowed me to grow in my preaching.
While at Denver Seminary, it was Haddon Robinson who first showed me the freedom of knowing just one simple thing to say. Dr. Calvin Troup and Dr. Richard Arnett of Duquesne University offered eye-opening insights into building a philosophy of communication flowing from the ancient world. Although I never had the chance to know Walter Ong, his winsome scholarship changed the course of my preaching and my life.
Finally, I’m deeply indebted to the congregation of The Chapel at Tinkers Creek in Streetsboro, Ohio, for blessing my efforts to learn to preach by ear, week in and week out, for more than ten years now.
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About Preaching by Ear: Speaking God’s Truth from the Inside OutAccording to Kenton Anderson, professor of homiletics at ACTS Seminaries of Trinity Western University, this volume represents “a powerful tool” because it offers a new (actually old) model of preaching. For centuries, preaching has been shaped from a literary standpoint (i.e., reading, writing, outlining, and displaying sermons), but a premodern method of oral preparation and delivery has largely been forgotten. Preaching by Ear hearkens back to an earlier era when sermons were rooted inside the preacher and moved out in a natural and powerful way. |
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