Pastors Seminar & Fellowship
Narrative Preaching
Empowering Asian church with
narrative preaching & teaching techniques
- 7 October 2023
- 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Singapore Bible College
Zoom is available only for oversea participants.
This seminar presents narrative preaching and teaching as ministry tools relevant to the Asian church. Asians traditionally learn through stories, much like the Old and New Testaments' ancient audience(s).
Thus, a significant part of the Bible is narrative, which the biblical authors use in order to mediate the understanding of God and his world.
We will learn
(a) how to read biblical narrative; (b) learn the importance of reading a narrative in the light of its literary and socio-cultural context. Putting these learnings together, we will attempt narrative preaching (or preaching from biblical narratives) in such a way as to make our teaching and preaching more effective to our Asian target audience.
Speaker: Havilah Dharamraj
She is a faculty in the Old Testament at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) in Bangalore, India. Her academic degrees include an MS in biochemistry MA in
Christianity, and PhD in Old Testament from the University of Durham, UK. Her academic interests include Old Testament narrative, reception-centred intertextuality that engages texts across the biblical canon, and comparative literature, which converses biblical texts with the sacred texts of other faiths. She encourages the retrieval of traditional methods of storytelling for use in preaching.
