I am continually stirred by John Henry Jowett’s writings. They seem simultaneously lost to time but more apropos than ever. Indeed, the fifth of his Yale lectures on The Preacher, entitled “The Preacher in His Pulpit,” could very well be re-published today without much alteration and it still retain its original significance and resonance. One might expect to think that a lecture on “the pulpit” might deal predominantly with the sermon itself. I very well expected the same thing. However, remarkably, Jowett does not actually belabor an examination on sermon preparation. Instead, he spends some time speaking to the events that surround and precede pulpit proclamation, endeavoring to show their mutual importance when it concerns congregational worship. He especially elaborates on the music that heralds the sermon. Jowett writes:
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Get rid of songs that entertain.
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I am continually stirred by John Henry Jowett’s writings. They seem simultaneously lost to time but more apropos than ever. Indeed, the fifth of his Yale lectures on The Preacher, entitled “The Preacher in His Pulpit,” could very well be re-published today without much alteration and it still retain its original significance and resonance. One might expect to think that a lecture on “the pulpit” might deal predominantly with the sermon itself. I very well expected the same thing. However, remarkably, Jowett does not actually belabor an examination on sermon preparation. Instead, he spends some time speaking to the events that surround and precede pulpit proclamation, endeavoring to show their mutual importance when it concerns congregational worship. He especially elaborates on the music that heralds the sermon. Jowett writes: