In the parable that begins this book, a large chunk has fallen
out of the roof of a historic church, exactly where an imposing
mosaic of God enthroned in heaven used to reside. The members of
the church, unable to agree on how to repair the roof or what image
to put there, now worship under a God-shaped hole, trying to come
to grips with the loss of old certitudes and the new challenges
they face.
The church today faces exactly the same problem, argues Thomas
Troeger. We live in a fragmented society, and the church reflects
that fragmentation. We, too, sit under the "God-shaped hole,"
wondering how to proceed now that former ways of understanding who
God is and what it means to be God's people are no longer
universally or even widely held. How does one preach in this
situation? The answer, says Troeger, is to reclaim the imaginative
and visionary role of the preacher.
The preacher's job is to employ the creative elements of
preaching to help God's people imagine the new thing God is doing
in our time. Yet this kind of creative preaching is not just a
matter of technique, of learning the right methods for how to
preach with imagination. It is foremost a matter of formation; it
comes when the preacher opens himself or herself, through the
disciplines of prayer and study, to the inspiring presence of God's
Spirit.
In Preaching While the Church Is Under Reconstruction, Troeger
constructs a framework for how to preach in this time of transition
and failing certainties. He demonstrates that, enlivened by the
work of God's Spirit, it is possible to preach with vision and
insight, and help God's people perceive their place in the world
which God is creating anew.
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