listener should not think in terms of first century and twentieth century, but consider the central truth of the Word of God. Barth affirmed that biblical preaching dissolves the wall between the first-century word and twentieth-century man.3 But what should preaching do? “What is transmitted and what one seeks to have accepted is a person. And the goal to be obtained is adherence to a person.… The real problem of preaching consists in discovering how to … establish between God and man a community