In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many
Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to
feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in
contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry
bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for preaching in the Spirit,
acclaimed homiletician Luke Powery asserts that death is the
context for all preaching. In fact, the Spirit leads preachers to
the context of death each Sunday in order to proclaim a word of
life that ultimately breathes hope into people's lives. Yet many
preachers avoid death because they are at a loss of what to say
about it and do not realize its vital connection to the substance
of Christian hope. As a result the church is too often left with
sermons that are fundamentally devoid of hope. Dem Dry Bones aims
to remedy some of the theological and homiletical shortcomings in
contemporary preaching by looking closely at the African American
spirituals tradition. Through this study, Powery demonstrates how
to preach in the Spirit so that proclaiming death becomes an avenue
toward hope. In short: no death, no hope.
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