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From the above examination, it becomes obvious that Jesus adapted his message to the nature

of his audience. To do so, Jesus used a variety of measures, such as dialogue, questions,

common experience, and even the particular religious perspectives and situations of his listeners.

It is also evident that the Jesus took extensive advantage of parable and inductive movement,

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making them the common denominators in most of all of Jesus’ preaching. It is, therefore,
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justifiable to say that Jesus’ preaching is “inductive, audience-centered preaching.”

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Harrison Meredith Tipsword, The Pedagogics of Jesus (Boston, MA: Richard G.
Badger, 1916), 104. He accounts that “Jesus emphasized the purely inductive method, giving
most attention to particular facts without drawing the inferences or stating the general principles
of which the particular data was the foundation.”

81 Ralph L. Lewis and Gregg Lewis, Learning to Preach Like Jesus (Westchester, IL:
Crossway Books, 1989), 24.