ABSTRACT

The topic, ‘Preaching and Worship’, is puzzling. It is difficult to handle because [the] words ‘preaching’ and ‘worship’ are fuzzy: they all but defy definition. James White growls that ‘“worship” itself is an exasperatingly difficult word to pin down.’ 1 The word ‘preaching’ is no less difficult. Every book on homiletics seems to stumble on a new definition; from the cliched idiocy of ‘Truth through Personality’ (Liberalism) to the cliched obscurantism of ‘Proclaiming the Word’ (Orthodoxy). So, at the outset, we are stymied.