“A sermon is not a manuscript, not a paper outline simple or elaborate, not a sketch. . . . A sermon is a continuity of sounds, looks, gestures which follow one another in time.”4 I believe that we in the homiletical community have yet to grasp fully the enormous implications of this “simple” statement. Otherwise, we would have learned to speak not so much about sermon points as about sermon steps. And how might we identify just how radical these ideas are? The first step is to notice some images