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Proclame La Verdad: Predique En Un Mundo Postmoderno (2010)

by R. Albert Mohler Jr.(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0825418119 (ISBN13: 9780825418112)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Portavoz

review 1: This is a great book on preaching. It gives a theological underpinning for preaching, particularly in our postmodern world where we are told preaching is outdated. Mohler stands like a soldier on a hill marshalling faithful men to hear the call of God and preach the gospel unadulterated. Mohler looks at key Biblical text to show that God has called his people to be people of the word, God desires His people to hear his word, God uses the power of the preached word and the pastor's highest calling is to be a theologian and preacher of God's Word. If you are a pastor or lay person, this book is highly recommended. Mohler comes makes his case with clarity and conviction. The book brings both light and heat. Mohler directs the reader right to the heart of God's Word making a ... morecase for the necessity and the centrality of the preaching of the Word of God in the church today. Those who walk away from this book without a renewed passion and conviction for the declaration of the Word of God in preaching had better check their own pulse.
review 2: I can dig Mohler's preaching and I find a lot of value in his book. While I preach expositionally and believe greatly in such preaching's effectiveness and necessity, Mohler overstates the case for expository preaching. He says that preaching that is not expository is not preaching.If this is his definition of preaching, and it is, then Mohler has a great deal of 'preaching' in the Bible to deal with. Was Peter's Pentecost sermon not preaching or does it exposit a text?To be fair, Mohler does not refers to Paul's sermon on Mars Hill as preaching. He uses other words to describe the action of preaching in that case, so he doesn't call it preaching.However, Mohler betrays his consistency of language by ignoring a consistency of structure. When speaking of Ezra's preaching to the Israelites as a model of preaching earlier in the book, he writes to the effect of saying that preachers ought to preach as Ezra preached. Both acts are preaching.In the case of Acts 17, Mohler again uses the biblical event as an example by which preachers can learn principles of preaching. The structure follows the same as the case of Ezra, wherein it was exhorted to preach in the same manner as Ezra–expositionally.The structure is the same, effectively saying that preachers should preach in the same way–in a manner engaging postmodernity–that Paul addressed his audience. This has the effect of naming Paul's actions as preaching in the same way that the contemporary preacher does and as Ezra did. Mohler, however, refuses to call a message such as Paul's on Mars Hill a sermon.The fact that Mohler has to dance around with language in order to preserve his own idiosyncratic definitions of preaching reveals a problem in his definition. While he will not call non-expository preaching an act of preaching, his parallel structures in his exhortations to preachers based on the examples of Ezra and Paul reveal that the definition does not work. If so, every preaching event, even in the Bible, that does not have a text as its agenda either must be demonstrated to have a text in order to accommodate Mohler's definition or must be called something other than preaching. Mohler chooses the latter option.It would seem more prudent to lift up the value and necessity of expository preaching as the most effective tool for the steady diet of preaching but to recognize other sermon forms and methods as valid types of preaching, even if they don't provide the mainstay of preaching. less

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