The inductive sermon moves from predictability to surprise. It doesn’t so much provide an answer as suggest an answer, gather a response, imply a solution, narrate a reply. I wish I could preach as inductively as Winston Churchill (or was it W. C. Fields?), who, while intoxicated at a party, told a woman he detested, “You are ugly.” To which she retorted, “And you are drunk!” “But,” he responded, “in the morning, I’ll be sober.” That’s inductive communication.
