Preaching The Story

Pastor, have you ever told a really good story and had the congregation “in the palm of your hand”? Have you ever shared a sermon illustration and the crowd was so attentive that you could hear a pin drop? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people would listen that way through an entire sermon? Preaching the Story explains why the attentiveness of your congregation rises when you become a sacred storyteller. It explores why communication is more effective when your sermons are no longer lectures but stories. In fact, it explains how to deliver your entire sermon in story form.

Written for the working pastor, Preaching the Story provides answers to questions such as these:

*How can I use a full sermon to tell a story from Scripture while making it relevant to today?

*How can I preach stories from passages of Scripture that are not stories, such as the Epistles, Proverbs, or Psalms?

*How can I preach a first-person narrative without making it look like a VBS skit?

“We are the last generation to experience preaching in its current form,” Frymire writes. Today’s preacher must move “from extrapolating facts from a dry text to unveiling the incredible mystery of life as an unfolding story especially since the Word of God is the greatest storybook ever written.”