Issue 15 Vulnerability in PreachingBlog | Books for life: Four books to help your preaching connect
Books for life: Four books to help your preaching connect
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 26.09.18
Books for Life Four books to help your preaching connect ESSENTIAL READING FOR PREACHERS Autumn 2018
When my wife and I were cross cultural missionaries in Albania, we really appreciated working with people from all around the world for the sake of the gospel. However it was working with visiting preachers from the UK and US that caused the most difficulties. Some assumed that because their audiences did not speak English, they were intellectually challenged and came across as patronising in the most embarrassing way. Some were so rigid in their structure, ensuring that their three points began with the same leter, that it apparently made them oblivious to the fact that it would all be lost in translation. Some were so culturally insensitive that they would talk about how tiresome their flight had been, or how arduous it was coping without the luxuries they had back home, completely blind to the daily poverty that their audience had to deal with. Some were ignorant not just of the culture and language, but of the Bible as well, filling their talks with anecdotes and quotes that connected with neither.
