Pericopal Theology

Growing, Pericope by Pericope

September 12th, 2012| Topic: aBeLOG, Pericopal Theology | 2

Growing, Pericope by Pericope

It is not often that one gets to see the fruit of one’s ministry labors. But by God’s grace, I got to taste a delicious specimen the other day, in the form of an email from one of my former students, Michael. He always kept pestering me about when my Mark commentary would be done. When it came on the market, Michael was one of the first to buy a copy, and he promptly began teaching through it in his SS class for Young Marrieds at a local church.

Here’s his email (slightly…   Read more →

The World in Front of the Text

September 3rd, 2012| Topic: aBeLOG, Pericopal Theology | 0

The <em>World in Front of the Text</em>

It is by the regular weekly encounters with pericopes of Scripture that life change is addressed, so that the people of God may be aligned to the will of God. As pericopes are sequentially preached from, the resultant transformation of lives reflects a gradual and increasing alignment to the values of God’s kingdom (his ideal “world”). In other words, what is being sought in the weekly homiletical undertakings of the church is corporate and individual alignment with…   Read more →

The Pericope in Preaching

August 17th, 2012| Topic: aBeLOG, Pericopal Theology | 0

The Pericope in Preaching

“Pericope” refers to a portion of the biblical text that is of manageable size for a given preaching event in the worship gathering of the church. In other words it is a preaching text. It is through pericopes, read and exposited in congregations as fundamental units of Scripture, that the community of God corporately encounters the Bible. Indeed, it is impossible to conceive of a gathering of the faithful that does not implement such a reading and interpretation of…   Read more →

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