While traditional preaching still echoes a “smash the icons” Gutenberg mentality that privileges words, points, and principles over images and stories, images are the bread and butter of semiotic preaching. Part of creating an EPIC sermon is dynamically and relationally to introduce metaphors, images, and stories (narraphors) that “make the familiar strange,” that catapult the participant into a realm of the unexpected, unusual, and mysterious. A great metaphor takes a familiar image and gives it a twist in order to introduce an unfamiliar vision. Great metaphors or narraphors (extended
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