Homiletic cross-referencing
Peter Mead offers some helpful advice on scriptural cross-referencing in preaching. For preachers in Bible-oriented churches, this advice is especially helpful:
If you do cross-reference, then…don’t make it into a sword drill. That is to say, don’t overwhelm or distract people by expecting, or even allowing, them to hunt down every reference. This is too much for many, and can create an inner crisis for note-takers!Amen. That quote's from Part 2. Part 1 is also worth reading.
posted by Milton Stanley at 11:23 AM
2 Comments:
Your terminology, "Bible-oriented churches" stirred something in me.
If the church is Body and Bride of Christ it should be a Bible oriented church. Correct?
A non-Bible oriented church is only a church in name as far as I am concerned.
Better stop here, I feel......
Yes, all churches should be Bible-oriented. I once heard a preacher speak at a retreat, and during his lecture he talked about Paul had got it wrong in Romans 7. That man's theology, it seems, was more important than the Word of God. I have a feeling his church could have used a lot more Bible and and lot less of him.
My use of the phrase "Bible-oriented churches" may have been a little too abbreviated short-hand. I was trying to describe the kind of churches where a sermon may contain 30 or 40 different Bible references and a large portion of the congregation literally spends the entire sermon flipping back and forth between these passages.
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