the role of listeners in preaching, there will be sermons expressing for the whole church, and with God as the primary audience, the faith, the doubt, the fear, the anger, the love, the joy, the gratitude that is in all of us. The listeners say, ‘Yes, that’s my message; that is what I have wanted to say.’ ” Or as C. S. Lewis put it, Jesus’ command to Peter was, “Feed my sheep,” not, “Try new experiments on my rats.” I’m often tempted to be creative merely for the sake of being creative. Nothing is