business of scratching itching ears. Experimental preaching, therefore, depends on sound hermeneutical and exegetical skills. It does not, however, seek merely to propound truth for truth’s sake. Truth is never to be preached in a vacuum. It is to be brought to bear on the hearts and lives of those who hear it. It is to address their whole person—the mind first, and through the mind, the conscience, the affections and the will. Only in so far as the very soul of a person is addressed is truth preached