propositional preaching is no longer a viable method of communicating with today’s postmodern audiences. This is usually assumed to be true for at least two reasons: 1) communication theory has discovered (or, more accurately, rediscovered) the importance of the listener, and 2) the rise of narrative as a fundamental category in the human sciences coupled with the discovery (or rediscovery) of the narrative form of much of the Scriptures mandates a narrative approach to preaching.5 In As One Without