Celebration and Experience in Preaching (Paperback)

by Henry M. Mitchell (Author)

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Product Description
The classic text on preaching, revised and updated to meet the needs of a new generation of preachers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 155 pages
• Publisher: Abingdon Press (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0687047447
• ISBN-13: 978-0687047444
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #246,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Structuring a Sermon Accoding to Mitchell, July 24, 2007

By	Sherman Cox "SoulPreaching.Com Website Editor" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

Henry Mitchell provides 2 very important sermonic structural components that we must keep in mind when discussing Black preaching. First, he argues that celebration is the pervasive distinctive that Black preaching brings to the homiletic universe. Black preaching appeals to the emotive and seeks to reach the intuitive the place where we really live by celebrating the Gospel.

The second component of the book is the genres of preaching. Mitchell gives us a way to look at how culture and Bible perspectives are brought together in a sermon. Many of these sermon types are simply variations on a narrative theme. The first genre is Narrative. Like any story there is protagonist, setting, plot, conflict, and resolution. Then there is a celebration of the resolution. The character sketch is basically looking at one character and the group study is a narrative study that looks at a group. The dialogue type is to bring a real conversation from the scriptures into the pulpit. The Monologue and Testimony is a first person story. Then there are metaphors similes and analogues. Finally there is stream of consciousness where the preacher gets into the mindset of the scripture and follows it.

To create a sermon, according to Mitchell, you must internalize and really live in the text to get the details out of it that you will need so the people will identify. Then you need a behavioral purpose. Then we kind of allow the scripture to make a body fall out. Then we close with a celebration of the Gospel.

It is a good book that I would suggest all students of preaching purchase.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Returned Item!, February 11, 2009

By	A. Johnson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I returned this item. I haven't received a refund of my money as of yet. I can't rate this, except that this is poor customer service.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good concept, but narrow focus., July 25, 2000

By	Daniel D. Heilborn (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This is a good primer for learning one specific style of preaching. My personal feeling is that no one style is best suited for every different message. However, the book has good ideas and is very readable.