Pew Rights: For People who Listen to Sermons
Roger Vann Harn
If preachers have responsibilities, listeners have rights. That is the thesis behind this book and its title.
Rights, after all, are the counterpart of responsibilities. Children's rights derive from parental responsibilities, patient rights are rooted in health-care responsibilities, civil rights issue from social responsibilities, and pew rights are based in pulpit responsibilites. The twelve pew rights identified in these chapters are framed by a single proposition: “We listen to sermons from Bible texts in God's story to us in God's story to hear the Word of God.”
The rights described here include: When we listen to sermons, we have the right to hear a pioneer listener speak, we have the right to hear a Word addressed to our basic human needs, we have the right to see our culture in the light of God's Story, and we have the right to hear the faith of the church proclaimed from the church, to the church, for the world.
Those who preach and those who listen will benefit from reading this book together. It will strengthen their partnership and deepen appreciation for their respective roles.
Rights, after all, are the counterpart of responsibilities. Children's rights derive from parental responsibilities, patient rights are rooted in health-care responsibilities, civil rights issue from social responsibilities, and pew rights are based in pulpit responsibilites. The twelve pew rights identified in these chapters are framed by a single proposition: “We listen to sermons from Bible texts in God's story to us in God's story to hear the Word of God.”
The rights described here include: When we listen to sermons, we have the right to hear a pioneer listener speak, we have the right to hear a Word addressed to our basic human needs, we have the right to see our culture in the light of God's Story, and we have the right to hear the faith of the church proclaimed from the church, to the church, for the world.
Those who preach and those who listen will benefit from reading this book together. It will strengthen their partnership and deepen appreciation for their respective roles.
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ISBN: 9780802847843
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: WM B EERDMANS PUB CO - published N/A
Format: Paperback
£13.99