Description
“No one is born with the mindset, disciplines, or skills necessary to be an effective preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Preachers are not born; they must be made.” With these words, pastor, professor, and preacher extraordinaire, Marvin McMickle offers a five-stage approach to the spiritual formation of the preacher. Drawing from the biblical life of Moses, the formation process traces the preacher’s development through the steps of Call, Character, Content, Context, and Consequences. By exploring the process of spiritual formation on display in that leader’s life in Scripture, readers will be able to consider and deepen their own preaching ministries.
Reviews
"In his many writings, Marvin McMickle has always been one of our wisest and most articulate advocates for bold preaching in our compromised culture. Now, in this eloquent and impassioned volume, he names the kind of preachers needed in this fraught moment in American life. Using Moses as a guide and pattern, McMickle describes preachers who are summoned by God to tell the truth of the gospel, bravely and full of hope, even when the Pharaoh de jour seems immovable, deceitful, and cruel. This is an essential preaching guide for our time." —Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA
Author Bio
Marvin A. McMickle, DMin, PhD is currently Interim Regional Executive Minister of The Cleveland Baptist Association of American Baptist Churches USA. He was Interim Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where he previously served as senior pastor for nearly twenty-five years. He has also served as past president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. No stranger to academia, McMickle previously served as professor of homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary and in 2009, spent a semester as a visiting professor at Yale University Divinity School. He also taught at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State, Princeton, and Fordham universities. A prolific author, McMickle, has more than a dozen books to his credit, including resources on preaching, ministry, and African American history