Without participation, how is the preacher to know what is being preached? This homiletic of interactivity can take many forms. In fact, the language of preaching needs to learn from the language of the Native American Pueblos (Tewa), in which everything has a different name depending on its state of interactivity. For example, wood that is the trunk of a tree has a different name than wood burning in the fireplace or wood legs on a chair or wood leaves that we call paper. For the Pueblos, everything is defined not solely in terms of its inherent properties but primarily in terms of its
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