that faith would be in demonstration of God’s power (cf. 1 Cor. 2:1–6). The apostles’ theology of preaching was built around the elements of the kerygma: the incarnation, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Christ. In this sense preaching in the context of the worshiping community reenacted the event of Christ, the event that provided shape and meaning not only to worship but to the lives of the worshipers.5 The church’s preaching understood the Old Testament Scripture in terms of Christ’s