defies so much of what we’ve said we must understand about our hearers. In the marketplace they see, work and struggle with the facts; in the family they feel the facts; they learn primarily from experience and relationships as they’re battered on every shore by the problems and realism of life. Our deductive, propositional preaching, on the other hand, often attempts to take them far from the shores of everyday life on what is more apt to be a solo voyage than a group expedition. Sometimes discovery