It has been said that the day of the sermon is over.
As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching.
Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it.
Imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform.
Kate Bruce argues that the day of the poorly conceived, ill prepared, dull, disconnected, boring, irrelevant, authoritarian, yawn-inducing, patronizing, pontificating, pointless and badly delivered sermon, is indeed over.
It has been said that the day of the sermon is over