1. Class #2 Preaching and Congregational Culture Transcontextual Preaching

2. Preaching Speaker-oriented VS. Listener-oriented

3. The Speaker-oriented Approach to Preaching Who Are Our Listeners?  The congregation as individuals:  The congregation as a group of homogenous people:  The congregation as a group of diverse people:  The congregation as a member of the global community: Theologies of Preaching:

4. The Congregation as Individuals Edgar Jackson, A Psychology for Preaching Stages of Life (age, marital status, etc.): Various walks of life (stages of spiritual journey, occupational situation, etc.): Current life experiences (happy transition? Grief experience?... ): Values of life: Motivations for being present in the church: A Theology of Preaching:

5. The Congregation as a Homogenous Group Leonora Tisdale, Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art The racial and ethnic history: The social and geographical location: The denominational background: The theological orientation: Liturgical practices (the order of worship, preaching styles, favorite songs, prayer types, etc.) Spiritual Types: A Theology of Preaching:

6. The Congregation as a Diverse Group James Nieman & Thomas Rogers, Preaching to Every Pew Demographical information: The tension of cultural diversity:  Ethnicity  class  displacement  religious beliefs The identity of the church: Difference and commonality (core value): A Theology of Preaching:

7. The Congregation as a Member of the Global Family E. Kim, Preaching in an Age of Globalization Globalization: A “Process” or a “trend” becoming global. Dimensions of Globalization:  Cultural Diversity  Neoliberal Capitalism  Global Climate Change  The Advancement of Information Technology: The impact of globalization on local congregations: Power dynamics within the congregation:  Who are in the center or in the dominant group of the church?  Who are in the margins of the church? Whose voice is not heard or suppressed in preaching, administration, and educational curricula of the church?

8. Transcontextual Preaching Trans = “Through and Beyond” Contextual: Contexere = to “Weave” or to “Braid “ Context = “Interwovenness” or “Connectedess” The Transcontextual = the Global + the Local = “Glocalization”

9. A Theology of Transcontextual Preaching: Humanization: God’s humanizing activity through a communal process toward the liberation of God’s creatures on earth. A Theology of Humanization: A discernment of 1)What God is doing in our globalized world in order to make and keep human life human, and 2)what we, as believers in Jesus Christ and as members of his church, are to do. A Theology of Preaching:

10. Transcontextual Preaching as a Practice of the Politics of God Politics: “The study of the form of [human] community... for a people [to be] able to pursue the most ideal mode of life.” The politics of God: “[A]n activity and reflection upon activity, which aims at and analyzes what it takes to make and keep human life human in the world” (Paul Lehmann, Ethics in a Christian Context, 85). A theological and homiletical question: “Is a different world possible, a world in which justice and peace are truly global?”