Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Community Church in Mission Viejo, California, among others, has been espousing a “new kind” of preaching. On the surface, it is extremely simple. In fact, its impact is most profound. It is called principle preaching. Principle preaching reduced to its simplest definition is drawing life application principles from the Bible and preaching them as the outline of the sermon. In each case, the three or four or even five
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