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Homiletics, narrative homiletics, and expository methodology. The significance of this research,

however, lies in its effort to draw implications from the preaching of Jesus as presented in the

canonical Gospels.

The incarnate Christ Jesus is the source and archetype of preaching. His methodology of

preaching is as worthy of careful study as his nature since Jesus is the pure model of humanity,

spirituality, morality, and Christian ministry, including the ministry of the Word. Raymond

Bailey points out that “Jesus provides the perfect professional role model of the pastor-

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preacher.” Jesus’ way of communicating the Word of God provides clues to every preacher
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regardless of his temporal context. His view of preaching, his way of interpreting the Scripture,

and his use of communicative techniques in his preaching deserve to be researched and adapted

to contemporary Korean preaching in order to bring about reformation and revival in the Korean

churches by means of strengthening pulpit ministry.

Study of Contemporary Protestant Preaching in Korea: Its Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and
Theology,” Ph.D. diss., School of Theology at Claremont, 1990; and Young Ho Kwon, “A
Theological Reformation of Preaching for Reforming the Korean Church,” D.Min., proj., School
of Theology at Claremont, 1994.

16 Raymond Bailey, Jesus the Preacher (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1990), 12.

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John Stott, “Communication, Context, and Centrality of Jesus Christ,” The Japan
Christian Quarterly 51 (Summer 1985): 158. He also asserts the centrality of Christ in the
ministry of Christian preaching (or communication); “First Jesus Christ is our model; he sends us
into the world as he was sent into the world, to penetrate deeply into other people’s lives.
Secondly, Jesus Christ is our message: it is his love, his death, and his resurrection, the new life
he offers, the new society he creates, and the new creation he has begun which we proclaim.
Thirdly, Jesus Christ is our motivation; it is his greater glory which preoccupies and engrosses us,
not our own.”

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