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Yet, the way of reading the Scripture and structuring a sermon that the first missionary

taught was not adapted to the Korean culture. They just planted the Western analytical way of

interpretation and topical deductive three-point preaching. It persisted more than one century.

The expository preaching that was introduced to Korea 1980s failed to overcome the deductive

presentation of points in preaching. Authoritarian deductive three-point preaching topical or

expository worked in the previous days regardless the failure of adaptation because of the

cultural trait of obedience to authority.

Nevertheless, things have changed. Korean preaching needs to be adapted to the changed

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listeners in many ways. It has been indicted that the Korean preachers were negligent in

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adapting homiletical methods to the changing context of preaching. In light of the study above,

Korean preachers must consider and attempt an inductive movement in preaching since it

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appeals to the changed context of the Korean church. Inductive preaching welcomes the
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audience in the journey to explore the truth. They come to be active partners in the preaching.

happens when the reader and text come to be unified as one by the reader’s attempt to enter the
text by intuitive repeated readings. He did not forget the danger of subjectivism.

56 The desired change in the use of language and rhetorical devices will be discussed next
section.

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Young Guen Park, “Escape from the Fixed Idea of Preaching,” Geu Malsseum (The
Word), 113 (November 1998): 80-90.

58 Inductive movement preaching in this context includes inductive sermon of Fred
Craddock, a plotted narrative sermon of Eugene Lowry, and story grounded sermon of Edmund
Steimle and so on. For brief introduction of these preaching, see Mark Barger Elliot, Creative
Style of Preaching (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), 1-13. From now on,
inductive preaching will be used for these groups of preaching.

59 Craddock, As One without Authority, 3d ed. (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1978), 58.