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Ebook Preaching with Cultural Intelligence Understanding the People Who Hear Our Sermons Matthew D Kim Books
"America is increasingly diverse, and so are American churches. Matthew D. Kim wants “to prepare twenty-first-century preachers for the realities of congregational diversity in North America and beyond.†To do so, he outlines a “homiletical template†to help preachers more effectively take into account their communities’ diversity in their preaching. He focuses specifically on diversity of denominations, ethnicities, genders, locations and religions. Preaching with Cultural Intelligence is a must-read for preachers who want to effectively minister to people different from themselves."
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Preaching with Cultural Intelligence Understanding the People Who Hear Our Sermons Matthew D Kim Books Reviews :
Preaching with Cultural Intelligence Understanding the People Who Hear Our Sermons Matthew D Kim Books Reviews
- I found this book to be an extremely useful guide for anyone who is interested in preaching sermons that will minister to all the members of their congregations, and not just a select group. The information presented is truly relevant and well researched, combining sound hermeneutical principles with cutting edge research on cultural intelligence. I gleaned so much from this book, and decided that I had to share it with my students. I ended up designing an entire lecture on "Preaching with Cultural Intelligence" for my Homiletics class, and my students loved it!
- great book in teach how to be sensitive to other culture when comes to preaching
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- It's great book.I really like.
- I have read and re-read the foundational portion of this book after which he goes into diverse examples of application of his "new" hermeneutic. This process or at least philosophy is making the Scripture subject to the culture of your day, place, etc. The author does try to anchor his hermeneutic in traditional hermeneutic principles and accurately says; "Thus preaching with cultural intelligence begins with hermeneutics and not with the values of a particular cultural context". I agree!! He ties his philosophy into a single meaning of a passage of Scripture, and speaks well and clearly on understanding as they understood in the day and time/culture of the Bible. Then he destroys it all with this conclusion; "Coupling this knowledge base with modern cultures will give preachers the requisite cultural background they need to interpret Scripture effectively.". Here he steps into the world of theological mushiness and opens the door to his ultimate application of the Bible as a social justice instrument primarily. Scripture must be interpreted in light of the historical, grammatical, geographic, linguistic, cultural contexts that it was written in, period! Application alone can be driven by one's current cultural contexts. Using current cultural context as an instrument of interpretation is not justified here at all. Preach the Word as it is to people as they are. That age old adage has not changed and can not change if we are to remain faithful to the Word of God and proclaim a life changing message from it to a lost and dying world in every language, tongue, and nation. (Bible for cultural context). Though I will try once more to find this useful, I must warn readers about investing in it as it is not helpful for the purpose of getting truth to the nations. I appreciate Mr. Kim's perspective as an American of Korean descent, I can not accept his conclusion that this experience of being non homogenous should color his interpretation of eternal truth.
- America is increasingly diverse, and so are American churches. Matthew D. Kim wants “to prepare twenty-first-century preachers for the realities of congregational diversity in North America and beyond.†To do so, he outlines a “homiletical template†to help preachers more effectively take into account their communities’ diversity in their preaching. He focuses specifically on diversity of denominations, ethnicities, genders, locations and religions. Preaching with Cultural Intelligence is a must-read for preachers who want to effectively minister to people different from themselves.
- I found Dr. Kim’s book thought provoking and challenging. His suggestions are not so novel that they disrupt the whole foundation of sermon preparation, but there are enough new ideas to make me stop and consider how I plan for preaching. He affirms the historical, grammatical, literary method of studying scripture while at the same time allowing for post-modern criticism. We cannot step out of our culture and pretend to be an objective observer of scripture. At the same time, we must not despair of finding meaning, indeed the intended meaning, of a passage of the Bible. Kim asserts that we must examine our own cultural setting and contrast it with the scriptures. Done correctly this is both a hermeneutical and homiletical tool.
What Kim suggests is that we pay special attention to the cultural setting of a biblical author. Spend time considering what Babylon was like in Jeremiah’s day or what it meant to live in Ephesus when Paul wrote his letter. This will allow certain cultural tensions to float to the surface of scripture which is helpful when it is time to preach. Identifying the passage’s cultural setting makes it easier to see those tensions in our day. And lest you think it is all too theoretical, the second half of “Preaching with Cultural Intelligence†applies Kim’s method to various scripture passages. In an interesting organizational twist Kim not only applies his method to various passages, he applies it with an eye to crossing specific cultural barriers. There is a chapter about preaching across denominations, another about preaching to different cultures as well as chapters on preaching to both genders, in different locations and with an eye to different religions.
Kim’s method is encapsulated in three acronyms. For hermeneutic Kim uses the acronym HABIT to stand for Historical, cultural literary study, Author’s setting, Big Idea, Interpreting your own context and that of your listeners and finally, Theological presuppositions. The deliberate addition of “authors setting†and “interpreting your context†are what make Kim’s book original. His two other acronyms BRIDGE and DIALECT cover such homiletical issues as understanding the beliefs, rituals, idols and dreams of your congregation as well as the illustrations, applications and content in your sermon.
In talking to other pastors, the only concerns I heard were that there is nothing specific about preaching to multiple sites. Also, when considering the culture of the biblical authors there was no discussion about the multiple settings in some books. For example, Jesus is talking to Pharisees in first century Galilee, but Mark is also talking to Gentile Christians in Rome. Which setting are we to consider, or is it both? But these are small points. Overall, I found that the book challenged me as a white, middle-aged , evangelical man as I seek to preach and love the many, many cultures around me.
