Our Greater Love

I just heard a fantastic sermon on love this past Sunday. Yesterday I posted on Compelled by Love. And then last night I read this in Preaching to a Post-Everything World:

I used to think that a revival of true preaching was the greatest need of the hour. Don’t get me wrong – a revival of preaching is a great need…But a few bends in the road have led me to think that a need even greater than preaching exists…

Often we preachers turn to differing tools and models rather than to differing relationships as the answer for more relevant homiletics for our times. This book will take the necessity of contextualization and homiletical tools quite seriously. But whether one uses technology or not, has a pulpit or doesn’t, uses more propositions or more narratives, uses more monologues or more dialogues, has drama or does not have drama – if these form our only homiletical discussions and offer our only answers to the dissonance found in our generation or a geography, maybe we have misunderstood the question. It is our greater love more than our greater technology or techniques that will glorify God and transform a generation.