Listening to How One Listens to the Preached Word
By Thomas W. Spann
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About The Book
Thousands of sermons are preached every week in America and around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of worshipers hear the preached word each week in a variety of venues. How often are worshipers invited to reflect on how they listen to their own listening to the preached word? This may be an unheard of challenge.
Thomas Spann invites worshipers to embrace this challange through participation in a study group. To guide worshipers in listening to their own listening to the preached word, Thomas Spann presents several pages as slides in a PowerPoint presentation, with space to record information, insights, and inquiries. The slides include perspectives and insights on biblical references, ways in which the Bible is read, virtual listening, the work of the Holy Spirit, internal dialogue, role of culture, and social allocation. The book includes practical fill-in-the- blank exercises, vignettes, and a listening guide.
Dedicated to:
The waiting and listening and active congregation called St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church (Dallas, Texas)
Is there any word from the Lord?
Jeremiah 37:17
What’s inside
Preface
A Guide for Small Group Faciliators
A Listening Study Guide
Process Questions
Preface
I have written a book for preachers titled The Learning and the Burning: Ways to Enhance Preaching. The book you are reading has homiletical implications and may be considered a sequel to my homiletics textbook. However, the focus of this book is the listener in the pew. It is a guide to aid lay listeners in self-critical reflection. I have sought to offer a novel approach to the preaching-listening dynamic one which highlights listening, but more than that: it calls for second-level listening. As I attempt to show in this work, listening to how one listens to the preached word is not a common experience either during the worship experience or afterwards. It is a habit that must be learned. To learn this proposed habit, one must first be sensitized to the need to listen to ………..
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Slides
Pages
A listening Study Guide
This study guide may be used independently or in a small group. It is primarily designed for listeners in the pews. It assumes the hearing of a sermon (a.k.a., the preached word) either in person, online (virtual), or on YouTube. There is no time stamp for the selected sermon. The sermon does not have to be one delivered in one’s home church or by one’s own minister.
Dr. Thomas W. Spann has authored several books.
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