In When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit , Jay Augustine urges twenty-first-century preachers to speak openly against social injustice, establishing such preaching as a key component of prophetic leadership.
It can show society at large how to heal many of the social, economic, and political divisions in our world, the very rifts that underscore the need for social justice ministries and that necessitate prophetic preaching..
Then the church can lead in bridging social and ethnic gaps among its members.
When Prophets Preach demonstrates that faithfulness to this ministry requires preachers to break the Pulpit silence.
Addressing topics such as abusive immigration policies and racial injustices, he urges the church to return to its foundation of prophetic Leadership as exemplified not only by Jesus but by the Old Testament Prophets and the New Testament apostles.
Beginning with the premise that the church was birthed to address salvation in the kingdom-to-come and social justice in the kingdom-at-hand, Augustine presents prophetic preaching as part of the ministry of reconciliation Jesus left to the church.
In When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit , Jay Augustine urges twenty-first-century preachers to speak openly against social injustice, establishing such preaching as a key component of prophetic leadership
