Worship Symposium archive

Seeing What Is Really There: Preaching and the Imagination

W. Hulitt Gloer

Calvin Symposium on Worship 2008

Frederick Buechner writes that people “as a rule see only what they expect to see and little more.” The preacher’s calling is see beyond what we expect to see and help congregations to do the same. This session discussed what the preacher can do to be faithful to this calling.

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Topics: imagination, pastor, pastoral care, preaching, reading, sermons