I am not sure what I was expecting, but I was both blessed and challenged by it. The focus of the book is on listening, both to God and to people, by the preacher and the congregation. The preacher listens to, with and for the people. The book is structured using twelve questions. Then he moves through issues of the noise of a fallen world, the importance of the biblical text and gospel story, as well as contemporary culture to a final call for preachers to be listening to their people.
Chapters 2, 3, 5 and 6 are particularly strong as Van Harn addresses issues relating to Biblical interpretation and presentation. Unfortunately chapter 4 breaks the sequence. As he tries to show the importance of presenting the gospel behind every text he inadvertently does a good job of debunking the rather simplistic idea of the chapter.
His imagery of a smudged window is not comfortable to this reader. Having criticized this chapter, I should reemphasize how effective those before and after were in their purposes.
As well as affirming the need to hear the story behind, and around, the text, it would have been nice to read a chapter affirming the need to hear the story in the text. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.
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