Brooks’s prescription sounds quite a lot like Kimball’s. Preaching, Brooks famously suggested, is the presentation of truth through personality.6 Truth must be embodied. We know truth because it has been told to us (knowledge), and we are convinced of it because we have experienced it. The preacher’s challenge, then, is to share our experience with others. People need to know the truth, and they need someone who will tell them the truth. Like Jesus said, they will know that we have told them the
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