Ingredients for a Lifetime of Preaching

God spoke the cosmos into being through his word; God spoke to Abraham and fashioned a people for himself; the word of the LORD came to the prophets; and ultimately the word became flesh. While our liturgies are wordy, the liturgy has two climaxes: proclamation and sacrament. Word and Table stand in a mutually interpretive relationship. Neither is merely preparatory to the other, and neither exhausts the Church’s encounter with Christ. We Episcopalians ought to care deeply about preaching precisely because of our liturgical tradition, not despite it. Renewed preaching is necessary for the integrity of Anglican-Episcopal worship.