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Using New Testament Greek in Ministry: A Practical Guide for Students and Pastors is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here are all the tools pastors and teachers need to mine the Greek text and other language resources for the enhancement of personal study and sermon content. Using New Testament Greek in Ministry focuses on the transformation of exegesis into exposition, of studies into sermons. To prepare students toward this end, David Alan Black explains the process of using the Greek text and linguistic...

In the second place, we who preach from the New Testament must be keenly aware of the temptation of spiritual pride in using Greek in ministry. Probably the greatest danger in language study is for Greek to become centered on itself. Then, whether in the study or the pulpit, it subtly starts pushing itself, not Christ. It is distressing to see more and more of this kind of abuse of Greek among ministers. Instead of “holding forth the word of life” (Phil. 2:16), they are pushing themselves and their
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