The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching: Connecting the Bible to People
Overview
Haddon Robinson has influenced generations of students and preachers through his widely used classic text, Biblical Preaching, in which he shows preachers how to communicate the Bible’s big ideas with precision. But does Robinson’s “big-idea” approach to expository preaching still work in today’s diverse cultures and fast-paced world?
The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching presents a strong defense of the ongoing relevance of this approach to expository preaching. This volume is written not only for the current generation of students but also for today’s preachers, who will find in the pages of this book a powerful approach to expository preaching.
The Logos edition of this work on preaching is fully searchable and easily accessible. Scripture passages link directly to your English translations and to the original language texts, and important theological concepts link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the wealth of resources in your digital library.
- Presents a powerful approach to expository preaching
- Examines the “big-idea” approach to preaching popularized by Haddon Robinson
- Collects thoughts from a variety of authors on big idea preaching
- Part 1: Big Idea Preaching: Why a Single Idea Lands the Best Punch
- Part 2: Big Idea Preaching: Its Biblical and Theological Power
- Part 3: Big Idea Preaching: Communicating the Point
Top Highlights
“‘Thinking is hard work, and thinking about thinking is even harder work.’” (Page 57)
“Liefeld continues, ‘The essence of exposition is explanation. If I explain something, I am reasonably free to choose my own method, but I must be faithful to my subject.’” (Page 17)
“a speech, to be maximally effective, ought to attempt to develop more or less fully only one major proposition.18” (Page 20)
“How can Scripture be ‘useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness’16 if we don’t ‘get his point?’ The exegete cannot be satisfied merely with buckshot. The exegete must seek the bullet.” (Page 19)
“the only way to say ‘thus saith the Lord’ is to say what the Bible says. No other preaching is genuinely biblical” (Page 16)
- Paul Borden
- Scott M. Gibson
- Duane Litfin
- Terry Mattingly
- John Reed
- Bruce L. Shelley
- Donald R. Sunukjian
- Joseph M. Stowell III
- Bruce K. Waltke
- Scott Wenig
- Keith Willhite
- Title: The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching: Connecting the Bible to People
- Authors: Scott M. Gibson, Keith Willhite
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 182
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Homiletical use; Preaching
- ISBNs: 9781441255860, 0801090660, 9780801091582, 1441255869, 9780801090660, 0801091586
- Resource ID: LLS:BIGIDEABIBPREACH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:13:56Z
Keith Willhite teaches preaching serves as professor of pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is a former pastor and the founder and president of the popular ministry-consulting firm, Strategenuity.
Scott M. Gibson is the Haddon W. Robinson Professor of Preaching and Ministry, director of the Center for Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and one of the founders of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. He is the author or coauthor of several books on preaching and lives in Massachusetts.