The challenge here is that interactivity is beyond the preacher’s control, challenges tidy minds, and necessitates that the preacher be willing to be educated in public. An abductive and transductive homiletic is fundamentally an out-of-control homiletic. Everything about modern worship said control: bulletins with their “orders of worship,” lockstep ushers, people sitting straight in even rows.83 In fact, we chose to control rather than to create. We have conceived preaching within a logic of control rather than a logic of creativity and risk.
