Allan Demond, Senior Pastor, NewHope Baptist Church | Lecturer in Preaching, Whitley College

Ask accomplished preachers how they learned to preach and you are likely to hear aboutmentors and models not classrooms and textbooks. People learn how to preach from peoplewho preach…  This essay is about learning to preach by watching others, reflecting on practice, trying and failing forward, talking though actions, and fostering educationally fruitful relationships. It isabout using words and actions in the homiletic context in order to experience, and consequentlylearn to do, what is hardest (sometimes impossible) to say about preaching. This educational journey is called imitative practice.

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