The inductive way of preaching is concerned with “How do you make your case?” Or “How can you assemble ‘evidence’ to prove a thesis or make a point?” Like the Hebrew remez, it intimates an answer. It is not launched from a predetermined point but gathers evidence until the unstated is inescapable. The inductive sermon argues a line of reasoning, stacking one brick at a time, climbing one rung of the ladder after another. This is the kind of “logic” that concludes that cottage cheese makes you fat, so everyone eating cottage cheese is fat or cottage cheese thighs are never
