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Abstract We Preach Christ: Recovering the Gospel in Christian Preaching ABSTRACT WE PREACH CHRIST: RECOVERING THE GOSPEL IN CHRISTIAN PREACHING by Richard G. Hutchison This study evaluates the effectiveness of a ministry intervention which the researcher designed in order to influence preachers toward a Christ-centered approach to preaching rather than Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. The impetus for the study came from the researcher’s initial observations that much of so-called Christian preaching falls short of actually proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. Instead, it offers the listener good advice, moral exhortations, or therapeutic words for coping with life’s problems. In 2005, sociologist Christian Smith published the initial results of his National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) in which he explored the religious beliefs and attitudes of American teenagers from a wide range of socio-ethnic and religious backgrounds. In the summary of his findings, he described their predominant beliefs as Moralist Therapeutic Deism (MTD). MTD is essentially a religion of “niceness” which imagines a God who stays out of the way unless he is summoned to intervene in a personal crisis. It also affirms the existence of a generic moral code which is found in the Bible and in all world religions. This world view is also found among Christian teens who come from both mainline and conservative Protestant traditions. Using the five tenets of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and the five solas of the Protestant Reformation as an evaluative rubric, the researcher analyzed questionnaire and interview data collected from a purposive sampling of fifty-one pastors and pastoral trainees in the Philippines, in order to measure the relative changes in their levels of knowledge, disposition, and practice with regard to preaching as Christ-centered proclamation and not Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. DISSERTATION APPROVAL This is to certify that the dissertation entitled WE PREACH CHRIST: RECOVERING THE GOSPEL IN CHRISTIAN PREACHING presented by Richard G. Hutchison has been accepted towards fulfillment of the requirements for the DOCTOR OF MINISTRY degree at Asbury Theological Seminary Dissertation Coach Date Director, Doctor of Ministry Program Date Dean of the Beeson Center Date WE PREACH CHRIST: RECOVERING THE GOSPEL IN CHRISTIAN PREACHING A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Asbury Theological Seminary In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Ministry by Richard G. Hutchison May 2018 © 2018 Richard G. Hutchison ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ vii LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... ix CHAPTER 1 NATURE OF THE PROJECT .....................................................................1 Overview of the Chapter .........................................................................................1 Personal Introduction ..............................................................................................1 Statement of the Problem ........................................................................................6 Purpose of the Project………………………..……………………………………6 Research Questions ..................................................................................................7 Research Question #1 ..................................................................................7 Research Question #2 ..................................................................................7 Research Question #3 ..................................................................................7 Rationale for the Project ..........................................................................................7 Definition of Key Terms .........................................................................................8 Delimitations ...........................................................................................................9 Review of Relevant Literature ...............................................................................10 Research Methodology .........................................................................................11 Type of Research ......................................................................................11 Participants ................................................................................................11 Instrumentation .........................................................................................11 Data Collection .........................................................................................11 iii Data Analysis ............................................................................................12 Generalizability .........................................................................................12 Project Overview ..................................................................................................13 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW FOR THE PROJECT .........................................14 Overview of the Chapter ........................................................................................14 Description of Literature Surveyed .......................................................................14 Biblical Foundations ..............................................................................................15 Old Testament Foundations ......................................................................15 New Testament Foundations .....................................................................16 Synthesis of Biblical Themes for Preaching ..............................................23 Hermeneutical Issues and Presuppositions ................................................24 Historical-Theological Foundations.......................................................................37 Irenaeus ......................................................................................................37 Athanasius ..................................................................................................41 The Nicene Creed ......................................................................................46 Augustine ...................................................................................................47 The Protestant Reformation and the Five Solas .........................................50 John Wesley ...............................................................................................58 The Gospel We Preach: A Synthesis of the Theological Literature ..........68 Conflicting Paradigms of Preaching ......................................................................76 Moralistic Therapeutic Deism....................................................................77 Christ-centered Preaching ..........................................................................88 Gaps Analysis in Literature .................................................................................102 iv Research Design Literature .................................................................................103 Review of Chapter ..............................................................................................104 CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR THE PROJECT ..........................108 Overview of the Chapter .....................................................................................108 Nature and Purpose of the Project .......................................................................108 Research Questions ..............................................................................................109 Research Question #1 ..............................................................................109 Research Question #2 ..............................................................................110 Research Question #3 ..............................................................................111 Ministry Context(s) ..............................................................................................112 Participants ..........................................................................................................112 Criteria for Selection ...............................................................................112 Description of Participants .. ....................................................................113 Ethical Considerations ............................................................................114 Instrumentation ....................................................................................................114 Pre-Intervention Data Collection ............................................................114 Post-Intervention Data Collection ...........................................................115 Procedure for Analyzing the Evidence Collected ...............................................116 Reliability & Validity of Project Design …........................................................118 Reliability ……………...……………………………………………….118 Validity ………………………..……………………………………….119 Review of the Chapter ………………..……..………………………………....121 CHAPTER 4 EVIDENCE FOR THE PROJECT ............................................................122 v Overview of the Chapter .....................................................................................122
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