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contemporary Korean preaching should be “generative” rather than “informative.” The
generative, visual, and imaginative language entertains hearts with its creativity. To make the

sermon interesting is one of many keys to unlocking the heart and mind of the Korean audience

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soaked with entertainment. Korean preachers need to make sermons interesting by employing

concrete and vivid generative language.

with persons from other countries and with small children, three to five years of age; 6) comb
through your sermon for ideas and concepts; 7) play word games.

84 Ibid., 196.

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Calvin Miller, Spirit, Word, and Story: A Philosophy of Preaching (Dallas: Word
Publishing, 1989), 115. He advises that one of the ways to make the sermon interesting is to
keep it moving, by saying, “In every way, a good contemporary sermon groups around verbs;
action, therefore, flows and the sermon is clear in sound and meaning.”