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Homiletical Considerations

1. Consider your context. What values does your congregation

hold? What would you say is their core value?

2. Consider your worldview. What is your social location as a

preacher? Gender, race, age, primary language, socioeconomic

class? What privileges do you have and what challenges do you

have? What is your theological lens?

3. Imagine the most vulnerable member of your community and

read the text with them in mind. What comes to mind for you -

what words, phrases or images are perhaps seen or heard

differently?

4. Narrative: Where is the Tension in the text? Where is it in you?

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Homiletical Considerations

1. Consider once again your own social location and then the most

privileged person in your congregation/community. What

changes as a result? What words, phrases or images are

perhaps seen or heard differently?

2. Where is the surprise in this text – the part of the text that

throws the rest of the narrative on its head? How can you bring

the congregation along on this narrative journey?

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Homiletical Considerations

1. How would you describe your own theological worldview? How

does it match your present congregation? How are these

worldviews shaped or reshaped in light of a Christ the King

Sunday within an Expanded Advent?

2. Narrative: Witness. What is your personal witness? How does

your story relate or not to David’s story?

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Homiletical Considerations

1. Celebration in Preaching: Consider the Rhythm of the text. What

phrases or concepts stand out for you? How might they be used

to build a sense of celebration in light of an Expanded Advent

lens?

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Homiletical Considerations

1. What are the current events happening in your parish or in the

US or the world which affect the way in which these texts are

heard?

2. Are you celebrating communion this week? What does it mean

to come to the table in light of an Expanded Advent and these

texts? How might you craft a Prayer of Thanksgiving to

illuminate these theological themes?

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Novel Preaching

1. Consider the poetry of the text. What art or poetry could

illuminate the text this week and further develop congregational

reflection on the Reign of God here and now, while not yet in its

fullness?

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Homiletical Considerations

1. Narrative: Testimony – “What would you be willing to die for?”,

“What is your witness?”

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