The God of Jesus of Nazareth

Which God Are We Talking About? 1
The God of Jesus of Nazareth

Don’t tell them – show them! That was the advice I was given when trying to improve my preaching more than 30 years ago. My early attempts were not particularly successful. I remember two people coming up to me after a sermon I preached in 1980. ‘We think you were trying to tell us something very important,’ they said, ‘but we’re still not quite sure what it was.’ I later realized that one of my problems was that I tried to get across lots of ideas, without giving appropriate analogies or stories to help them see that these things made sense...