Preaching Jesus Christ Today Quotes

“Love turned in on itself, love closed off to our neighbor, love that will not spend itself for others does not last, but fades, sickens, and ultimately dies.”
― Annette Brownlee, Preaching Jesus Christ Today: Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon

“Paying attention to the identity of Jesus keeps our feet in the text. Through the discipline of attentive reading, I hope I am less likely to present an understanding of God unmediated by Scripture.”
― Annette Brownlee, Preaching Jesus Christ Today: Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon

“To defer to the text means we allow ourselves, the church, and the world to be read by it, addressed by it, and over time re-formed into the image of the one who has claimed us in his Word, Jesus Christ.”
― Annette Brownlee, Preaching Jesus Christ Today: Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon

“It is not a text we stand outside of to analyze or master. It is not something to be managed with our skills and certainly not within our sermon preparation. It is God’s living Word, which through the Spirit blows where it will and intrudes, claims, judges, and brings to life that which is not.”
― Annette Brownlee, Preaching Jesus Christ Today: Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon

“The good news of the gospel is that Christ’s incarnation into the problematic particularity of the human condition is this fallen world’s redemption.”
― Annette Brownlee, Preaching Jesus Christ Today: Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon

“Preachers do not have to figure out on their own how to make Scripture meaningful or relevant. Jesus Christ is implicitly relevant and is the meaning and telos of our lives and of all creation.”
― Annette Brownlee, Preaching Jesus Christ Today: Six Questions for Moving from Scripture to Sermon