Connect and reconnect

  Rose, Lucy Atkinson. Sharing the Word: Preaching in the Roundtable Church (Westminster John Knox, 1997).     1   Rose’s foundational claim about preaching, which she calls a proposal, is that it is Transformational, one she defines as nonhierarchical, heuristic and communal. It is preaching rooted in a relationship of connectedness and mutuality between the preacher and the worshippers which flow from and go back to faith and hope, and not from and to an objective, final truth. Preaching’s goal is to gather the community of faith around the Word where the central conversations of the Church are refocused and fostered. Labels like clergy and laity disappear and believing or wanting to believe is all that matters in this centrifugal movement in preaching. The new goal of the preaching as proposed by Rose demands new whats and hows . Dialogical preaching requires absence of a normative power and an authoritative figure of the preacher. Therefore, Rose sets out

English version of the song written by Paulo Brum, Tom Pacheco and me. It is a song written as an Invocation for Divine Service.  Lyrics: Lucas Andre Albrecht Music: Paulo Brum, Tom Pacheco English Version: Lucas Abrecht/Paulo Brum 2021 Instrumental: Banda SONs                       Vocal: Paulo Brum                        Bass: Vinicius Silva                       Drums: Eduardo Alves                       Guitar: Marcelo Silveira                       Keyboards: Tom Pacheco                       Backing vocals: Djenane Albrecht, Denise Mendes GOD Every place becomes the same place when You are there bringing your Grace. You come to teach, framing the way that I feel. Every place becomes the same place. Your Word alone imparting Your Grace. You come to teach, framing the way that I praise ::Father, Jesus Servant, Holy Ghost:: ::We are Yours, o Lord! Your deep Grace fulfills our life, leads our hearts to say: Just and Holy, God of Love!:: ::Father, (Holy) Jesus Servant, (Holy) Ho

 If the Word sounds foolish to the World, this is how it is supposed to be.

                                                                                                                                           Brueggemann, Walter.  Cadences of Home: Preaching Among Exiles.  (Westminster John Knox, 1997).     Walter Brueggemann operates from what seems to be a neo-historical critical approach, which is heavily demonstrated in his progressive view regarding hegemony, structure and power. His take on preaching, therefore, leads him to assert the principal task of the preacher as “to nurture a counter-identity enacting power in times of despair. The preacher is called to give spine, resolve, courage, energy, and freedom, that belong to a counter-identity.” (pg. 12) Brueggeman states that preaching is less proclaiming a moral code or a set of teachings, but it is a way to build up people’s strength and courage in a world threatening to eat them alive. Preaching is emboldening to participate in the social life of the world in the perspective of ho