PREACHING in the New Testament

PREACHING in the New Testament

PART ONE. PREACHING IN THE Old Testament

• I. Two Activities• A. Prophetic Proclamation: baser

(joy): announcing good news or a message of joy (2 Sam. 4:10; Ps. 40:9; Isa. 40:9)

• B. Teaching of Torah: qera (to proclaim or to call)

• Jer. 11:6; Mic. 3:5; Jonah 1:2

II. The Preaching of Jeremiah

• A. Jeremiah 20:7-9

• B. His call was irreversible

• God’s word was irrepressible: “fire shut up in his bones”

• “The fire can be quenched only one way: by preaching.”

Part Two. Terms for Preaching in the New

Testament• A. Two Primary Terms• 1. Kerusso—”to announce or proclaim

publicly”• a. Mk. 1:14 Jesus came into Galilee

preaching• b. I Cor. 1:23 we proclaim Christ crucified• c. Acts 10:42,43 commanded us to preach,

to testify that he is the One ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead

2. Euanggelizo “to bring or announce good news”

• Acts 17:23 “to proclaim’ “I proclaim the unknown God . . . . “

• I Peter 2:9 “to declare”“the wonderful deeds of God who called

you out of darkness”• Acts 17:30 “to command”

commands all people everywhere to repent

B. Models of Preaching

1. Message of the Baptizer

• a. a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin (Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3)

• b. preparation for the Coming of One stronger than he (Mk. 1:8)

• c. ethical instruction (Lk. 3:10-14)

• d. In GJn: bearing witness to Jesus as the Christ

2.The Proclamation of Jesus

• The gospel of God (Mk. 1:14)

• The gospel of the kingdom (Mt. 4:23)

• The gospel of the kingdom of God (Lk. 4:43)

Summation of the Dominical Proclamation in Mark 1

• Time is filled full

• The kingdom of God is at hand

• Repent

• Believe

Synopsis in Luke 4 (Isa 61)

• Good news to the poor• Release to the captives• Sight to the blind• Liberty to the oppressed• The year of God’s favor

• PS: a new era, the reign of God is breaking in

3. Early Missionary Sermons in Acts, primarily Peter and

Paul• The Basic Kerygma or preaching

prophecies are fulfilled

new age has arrived

life, death and resurrection of Jesus

call to decision

(CH Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and its Development)

4. The Pauline Preaching

• a. The Primitive Tradition of I Cor. 15:1ff: what terms I preached the gospel

1) Jesus died for our sins “acc. to the scriptures”

2) was buried

3) was raised up on the third day, “acc. to the scriptures”

4) has appeared to his followers

b. Governing centers of the Pauline preaching:

• Death of Jesus

• Resurrection as Exalted Lord

c. His mission to preach

• I Cor. 1:17: “For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel”

• I Cor. 9:16: “Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel”

d. Possible Sample of Pauline Preaching

• Romans 1-4 (Paul Althaus)

5. Hebrews, the earliest extant sermon?

• An expository sermon on the wilderness generation

C. Audiences and Corresponding Proclamations• 1. Audiences that knew the Hebrew

Bible

a. Acts 2:16-36 (Pentecost)

b. 3:12-26 (Solomon’s Portico)

c. 13:16-41 (Antioch)

2. Audiences totally unfamiliar with the Scripture

• A. 14:8-17 (Lystra)

• B. 17:22-31 (Areopagus)

PART THREE. WITNESS IN THE NT

• A. CORRECTION OF SELWYN

• B. THE WORK OF ALLISON TRITES

C.WITNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF A TRIAL

• 1. A Sustained Metaphor in

• a. GJn

• b. Book of Acts

• c. Apocalypse

2. Focus on the Johannine Lit.

• a. Gospel of John: an evangelistic witness to the significance of Christ, aiming at faith

• b.Witness in 1 John