Biblical truth Quote by Timothy Keller

“Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That’s the essence of contextualization.”

— Mark Driscoll

“But often the preaching is just motivational speaking, waterless clouds blown by the wind that offer inspiration without information (Jude 12). Sermons aren’t built…

— Grant Retief

“Topical preaching, polemical preaching, historical preaching, and other forms of sermonic output have, one supposes, their rightful and opportune uses. But expository preaching—the prayerful…

— E.M. Bounds

“Blind adherence to contextualization alters our preaching in at least three ways, and none of them is for the better. First, it impairs our…

— David R. Helm

“Biblical preaching must address three important questions: (1) What kinds of people in our community do we exclude from sitting with us and hearing…

— Zack Eswine

“I noted a second time appreciation for the author’s making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip service to…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“THE DANGER OF NOT CONTEXTUALIZING (OR OF THINKING YOU AREN’T) All gospel ministry and communication are already heavily adapted to a particular culture. So…

— Timothy Keller

“As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at…

— Jim Cymbala

“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?”

— Eugene L. Lowry

When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures,…

— Adam Hamilton

“a. Seek to worship and preach in the vernacular. It is impossible to overstate how insular and subcultural our preaching can become. We often…

— Timothy Keller

“Because the nature of all our God talk is inherently metaphoric and rhetorical, preaching will be a form of poetic rhetorical theology276 structured with…

— David Schnasa Jacobsen