Homiletics and Hermeneutics Quotes

“Lay people learn hermeneutics from their pastors’ preaching. Whether we like it or not, they learn how to interpret Scripture from how we handle Scripture in the pulpit. So what do we teach listeners about hermeneutics when Jesus makes a surprise appearance in a sermon from Proverbs?”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today

“Preaching should be God centered because God is God centered and wants us to be God centered in everything we do. All God does he does for his glory, and all we do—eating, drinking, and certainly preaching—we do for his glory (1 Cor. 10:31).1 Preachers may take up a variety of texts and topics, but they should take them up (and their hearers with them) all the way into the presence of God, so that listeners are instructed by the Word of God, convinced of the value of God, captivated by the holiness, grace, kingship, wisdom, and beauty of God. Preaching is all about and all for God.”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today

“His is the eternal decree, his is the love that drew salvation’s plan, his is the initiative in sending the Son, his is the power that raised Christ from the dead and put all things under his feet. “To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!” (Eph. 3:21 NIV).”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today

“Provision of divine redemption in the face of spiritual need is the consistent message of Scripture and the chief means by which human hearts flood with love for God that is power to obey his commands”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today

“it is the aim of God to renew the affections of believers so that their hearts will most desire him and his ways. This is as contrary to antinomian preaching as heaven’s blessings are to Satan’s lies.”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today

“As we demonstrate how every text reflects aspects of or needs for God’s grace that are made plain in the fullness of time, we honor the unity of Scripture, God’s progressive plan of redemption, and the many ways that the Holy Spirit coordinates the whole Bible to reveal the grace of the Savior and the futility of any other hope.”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today

“(we should not need a magic wand or a decoder ring to interpret Scripture),”
― Scott M. Gibson, Homiletics and Hermeneutics: Four Views on Preaching Today