The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Vol. 47

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Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Vol. 47: January, 1954 Moses, David, Paul - he ends with Christ. My judgment of an effective and inspiring sermon is a sermon with a subject and an appropriate Scrip ture text the speaker beginning with his text and ending with his text - his entire message to dwell on the subject accompanying his text which may be expounded from several angles and not drifting away from his text as many Speakers do. To keep one thought central in the minds of the hearers during the message, although approached from different angles, gives us something to take home and meditate upon. I like to see a minister take a text, take it apart and put it together again. How much more eloquent that is than the language of the schools - thesis, analysis, synthesis. What the laymen want, although they may not know it, is exegesis, drawing out from (ex) the passage the ideas of the author, not eisegesis, reading into (eis) the passage the ideas of the preacher. Good exegesis is the basis of good preaching. They want God's Word, not man's, but with some pertinence to it. I want down to earth sermons that deal with daily problems which con front the people and the world. There was one minister who selected a text but did not try to make it applicable to modern times. From a lay man's point of view, I think that it is far more interesting to the congregation for the minister to take a modern problem, finding its parallel in the Bible, and drawing the lines for the congregation. Was the sermon interesting and gripping? SO many of the ministers did not hold our interest and Challenge us. They just had not learned the art Of capturing and holding attention. The inexcusable sin in the pulpit is dullness. But there were ministers who did capture and hold attention. How did they do it? We will let the laymen tell us. I. He got hold of us at once, moved along and arrived. How the people do like to have the preacher begin where they are and make some point of contact with what is in their mind, as Peter did in his great sermon at Pentecost. Many in the audience that day, when they heard the Christians speaking in tongues were thinking and even saying, They are filled with new wine. As a result Peter's sermon had the most amazing opening sen tence a sermon ever had, We are not drunk. But he got their attention and they stayed with him as he proceeded from a few remarks on Spirits to a consideration Of the work of the Spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.