Summary

The small choices preachers make provide hearers not only with a better understanding of the text, but also with a keen understanding of the preacher.

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Details

This session invited participants to become self-aware in their own preaching and to improve their "ethics of preaching," or to learn how to listen to the things the preacher isn't saying.

Presented at the 2006 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

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