My Saturday Morning…

August 26, 2006

Was supposed to be spent looking over my sermon for tomorrow morning, but instead I got side-tracked in a very exciting way. At least, it was exciting for me! I have been thinking a lot lately about preaching, as is probably evident from some of the quotes I share here sometimes. Well, last night I got an idea (and I would chalk up that idea to the grace of God) to do a word study on the Greek word κηρυσσω, which is the word for preach used in the New Testament.

Specifically I had this goal: I wanted to look at every use of the word κηρυσσω (there are 61 in all) to see what the direct object was in each use. Not every use has a clear direct object, for example, Matthew 11:1, “When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.” Nothing is said there about what was the content of His preaching.

But my aim was to look for direct objects (and also look at the context where there was no explicit direct object) to see what it was that biblical preaching consisted of. What was the focus? What did the bulk of the content of New Testament preaching deal with?

So I spent this morning looking at all 61 uses, and O how my heart was stirred as a result! I’m eager to share what I found, but I’ve not organized my findings quite clearly enough to post yet. Hopefully that will come early next week.

But for now, I’ve got to look at tomorrow’s sermon!

Larry

PS — I really just wanted to check whether my Greek font could be used on this thing! I know I could have just written kerusso and that would have been easier to read!

Posted by Larry | Filed Under Random Musings, Scripture Meditation