{"id":5532,"date":"2010-02-16T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/narrative-preaching-5.html"},"modified":"2010-02-16T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:04:01","slug":"narrative-preaching-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/narrative-preaching-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Preaching 5"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As if Tom Long hasn’t taken on board some major issues in his lectures on preaching, the last chapter in his new book, Preaching from Memory to Hope<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>, examines preaching about eschatology.<\/div>\n
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Here’s the big introduction idea, as he asks preachers in the mainline the questions:<\/div>\n
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“What do you think about eschatology? I don’t know. What about a sermon on the last things? I’m not in the mood.”<\/div>\n
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There you have it: preaching on the Second Coming — and it’s an article of our faith — has fallen on agnostic times, something we hope we don’t have to do or something we’re dreading.<\/div>\n
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How about you? How much preaching on eschatology do you do? And how many sermons on eschatology in your church?<\/b><\/div>\n

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Long provides an overview of what happened: a century ago mainliners preached eschatology of a postmillennial sort, but the three-legged foundations were all sawed off, and all that survived was an evolutionary hope in progress and development. But progress won’t sustain eschatological hope.<\/div>\n
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He’s against the literalistic stuff of premillennialism and The Left Behind<\/i> series. But he thinks a genuine eschatology is needed.<\/div>\n
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Three characteristics of eschatological preaching according to Long:<\/div>\n
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1. Participate in the promise that God’s shalom flows into the present and draws us toward consummation.<\/div>\n
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2. Affirm that life under the providence of God has a shape, and that shape is end-stressed. The basic plot of life is “tick… tock.”<\/div>\n
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3. Seeing that apocalyptic language is not literal prediction; it’s a way of seeing the present in light of hope.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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