Pastors Week 2011

Preaching with Imagination and Creativity in the Post-Modern Era

January 24–27, 2011
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For many of the faithful the world has been turned upside down in the post-modern era. Many feel they have been pushed to the margins and loosed from their theological moorings. Truth with a capital "T" is in short supply. Even the grand metanarrative of the Christ-event that has defined the Christian hope for centuries is being called into question in this age of difference, otherness, relativity, and diversity. Yet many believe it is still possible to preach the Scriptures with integrity to the faith and relevance to the contemporary culture. Pastors Week lectures will focus on biblical exegesis, the effective use of the imagination, the ends and aims of preaching as well as ways in which to develop creative sermonic ideas.

Featured Presenter

Cleophus LaRue, Ph.D., is Francis Landey Patton Associate Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention of America and is the former pastor of churches in Texas and in Harlem and Jamaica Queens, New York. Dr. LaRue is editor of More Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons (Westminster John Knox, 2009),  The New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching (Abingdon, 2008), and This Is My Story: Testimonies and Sermons of Black Women in Ministry, editor  (Westminster John Knox, 2005).

Worship

Daily worship will feature “Work in Progress” (a music and worship team from Mennonite Church USA offces in Elkhart). Preachers include Leonard Dow, Pastor, Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; Ben Ollenburger, Professor of Old Testament at AMBS, and others.

Registration

Click here to register online. Information about registration fees, meals, lodging and other details can be found on the Registration Info page.

Continuing Education Credit

Attending all Pastors Week plenary and workshop sessions earns 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Indicate if you would like to receive CEU credit on the Pastors Week registration form and plan to pick up your CEU certificate when leaving the final session Thursday afternoon.

Questions?

Contact the Church Leadership Center
(574) 296-6269
ChurchLeadership@ambs.edu