The movement of homiletics from a “proposition-centered” focus to a “person-centered” approach74 required preachers to find a “new voice.”75 Randolph instructed preachers to focus on the sermon’s “eventfulness.” The issue is not what the sermon “is” but what the sermon “does.”76 But as much as Randolph saw the need for a changed homiletic, he still focused on creation of the sermon as performative event rather than participatory experience.
