Missional Preaching: Engage Embrace Transform
"A quite helpful contribution to the contemporary Christian conversation about the nature of Christian preaching and the church as missional. In a writing style that is engaging and compelling, Tizon clarifies what is meant by 'missional church' and brings together an impressive team of contributors to offer examples of sermons addressing multiple dimensions of the theme. The broadest accomplishment of the book may be its expression of a quite appealing Christian vision and community. Tizon, who works with Ron Sider at Palmer Seminary and Evangelicals for Social Action, inspires confidence in the long-term vitality and impact of Sider's holistic, global, and transformational type of evangelicalism. Both the book, and that movement, are worth everyone's attention. Strongly recommended." --Dr. David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Director, Center for Theology and Public Life, Mercer University"A gem in our time, this book addresses the real issues of how the church is to relate to the world as it engages in its missional task. Deeply theological and biblical yet very accessible, the book grounds the church’s mission in her sense of being and purpose in Christ, and not merely in her doing...Each sermon in the book inspires and gives us a different vision of mission that helps expand and refresh our understandings while providing excellent models and styles of preaching for our own growth as preachers." --Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, dean of Esperanza College at Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania; author of Listen to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families"If the conversation about the missional church is going move beyond the confines of the academy and into the life of local congregations, preaching will undoubtedly be one of the major conduits by which this occurs. In this volume Al Tizon provides a lively, holistic, and compelling description of missional preaching coupled with a set of illustrative sermons that admirably demonstrate the principles he articulates. It is a welcome addition to the literature on the missional church, but more than that, this is a book that can assist in bringing about the sort of transformation that the missional conversation has always envisioned." --John R. Franke, Theologian in Residence, First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, PA and General Coordinator of The Gospel and Our Culture Network