"If you know how to listen, you can hear the rumblings that confirm that preaching, as we know it, is a tragically broken endeavor. It can be heard in the halls at every pastors' convention. It can be heard in the conversations among preachers at social gatherings. It can be heard in cars as people drive home from church. You most certainly would be able to hear it if you could crawl into the heads of most preachers during their times of preparation or as they step into the pulpit."

Amen, brother Doug.

Many of us come to this emergent thing with the feeling that we can no longer spin our wheels. We see the methodology we've been handed and taught becoming less and less effective as time wears on. We seem to be trying harder and harder and getting less results.

I can hear the voices of the emergent NO! crowd... "If you would just preach the Word- that's what 'works'."

Well... I don't disagree. The question is what you do with the Word.

Doug's book is a great introduction to ideas of presenting God's Word, beyond one man standing in front of many people, making a speech, asking only rhetorical questions.

Does Doug believe in preaching? Yeah... "I believe, " he says (on page 18 of Preaching Re-imagined) "preaching to be a crucial act of the church. That's why preaching needs to be released from the bondage of the speech making act."

It's all about the Word... and what you do with it.

This is going to be a great book.

Have you ordered your copy yet?