“ Great Sermon! ” It is difficult to understand how anyone hearing this lecture could continue reading their manuscripts from the pulpit. I particularly liked the way Dr. Carrick drew upon the long history of great preaching in the church by quoting preachers of every generation back to the 15th century.
I have been teaching extemp preaching in the Kairos program at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN for the past 9 years and this lecture has inspired me to keep on teaching. My particular method is called Process Preaching and I recently published a book describing this method called SPEAKING THE WORD FREELY - Writing with Purpose, Preaching with Power.
Luther once wrote, "Where the oral proclamation of the Gospel ceases the people will revert to heathenism in a year's time. The Devil cares nothing about the written word, but where one speaks and preaches it, there he takes to flight."
