Preaching and Teaching with Imagination: The Quest for Biblical Ministry
Overview
This innovative book is about preaching and teaching the Word of God in a new and exciting way. Its main premise is that biblical preaching is far more than the proclamation of Bible truth. Warren Wiersbe writes from the perspective of a preacher, writer, and occasional seminary instructor who grew weary of “bringing skeletons into the pulpit and producing cadavers in the pews.” He urges preachers to start communicating God’s truth the way he communicated it to us in his Word—with imagination!
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- Discusses what it means to preach with imagination
- Teaches the reader what it takes to be a more effective preacher
- Examines true biblical preaching
- I. Imagination and Life
- The Tale of Two Preachers
- What Hushai Knew: People
- What Hushai Knew: The World around Him
- What Hushai Knew: Words
- Preacher, Tell Me a Story
- Skeletons in the Pulpit, Cadavers in the Pews
- The Hidden Destroyers
- The Mystery of Metaphor
- II. Imagination and Scripture
- Pictures in the Pentateuch
- Pictures in the Historical Books
- Pictures in the Poetical Books
- Pictures in the Prophets
- Jesus, the Master Teacher/Preacher
- Pictures in the Book of Acts
- Pictures of the Church
- Pictures in the Apocalypse
- III. Imagination and Biblical Preaching
- If You Don’t Talk to Your Bible, Your Bible Might Not Talk to You
- Taking Things Apart and Putting Things Together
- Imagination and Biographical Preaching
- Imagination and Comfort
- Messages for Special Days
- Imagination, Humor, and Preaching
- Imagination and Evangelistic Preaching
- Imagination and Creativity
- Preaching the Bible Biblically
- Appendix A—Questions Preachers and Teachers Ask
- Appendix B—A Short History of the Imagination
- Appendix C—Imagination and Myth
Top Highlights
“Ponder this fact: we think in pictures even though we speak and write with words.” (Page 24)
“What did Hushai know about words? That words began as pictures, and that language is metaphorical and helps to build the bridge between the world around us and the world within us.” (Page 23)
“‘Images ‘feed’ concepts; concepts ‘discipline’ images. Images without concepts are blind; concepts without images are sterile.” (Page 41)
“The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.’” (Pages 23–24)
“The movers and shakers in history have usually been people like Hushai who can turn people’s ears into eyes so that they see and feel the message and respond positively to it.” (Page 17)
- Title: Preaching and Teaching with Imagination: The Quest for Biblical Ministry
- Authors: Warren W. Wiersbe
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 1997
- Pages: 400
Warren W. Wiersbe (1929–2019) was an internationally known Bible teacher and pastor. He studied at Indiana University and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
In 2002, Wiersbe was awarded the Jordon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He was the former pastor of three churches, including The Moody Church.
For 10 years Wiersbe served as general director and Bible teacher for the Back to the Bible radio broadcast. He wrote more than 150 books, including the popular Old Testament "Be" Series and New Testament "Be" Series of expositional Bible studies, which has sold more than four million copies, and The Strategy of Satan.
