An Expository Preaching Guidebook for Post-Christian Communities Preaching must connect with its hearers. As the perception of the pastor has changed in recent years, and as congregations battle with increasing doubt, preaching appealing solely to rationality doesn't resonate in the same way as it once did. Post-Christian generations find themselves looking less for a charismatic authority figure and more for healthy leaders who are relationally connected to their neighborhood. Scholar and pastor Mark Glanville provides a fresh look into the art of crafting sermons for post-Christian contexts. In Preaching in a New Key, he teaches the craft of Christ-centered expository preaching from the ground up. Writing for both new and experienced pastors, Glanville recognizes that it is time for us to reset our compasses. Bringing together elements that are too often apart, Preaching in a New Key teaches expository preaching integrated with creativity, cultural discernment, pastoral health, justice, missiology, and more. Filled with helpful resources for seminary students and pastors alike, this book includes:
- Helpful visual aids to help prepare for writing a sermon - Guides for how to structure a sermon - Examples that show how to implement preaching practices Preaching in a New Key offers a practical and refreshing vision for crafting sermons that are sustainable for the pastor and resonant with communities.
"A brilliant and needed paradigm shift. There have been unintended consequences from some expository preaching that, in its desire to lift high Scripture, ended up neglecting the soul of the individual, the church body, and the community to which it is called. This book is a welcome corrective that doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Rather, it receives Scripture deeply into the soul of the preacher embedded in community and then creatively, communally, and specifically empowers the preacher to bear witness to the Living Word."
Toni Kim, director of spiritual care for the National Association of Evangelicals
"Mark Glanville offers an amazing mix of theory and practice for the art of preaching Christ in a post-Christian world. A great manual for how to craft preaching that is authentic, artful, contextual, and grounded in Scripture. A fresh approach to ministry of the Word in the twenty-first century."
Michael F. Bird, deputy principal at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia
