LitBit: Preaching is to lead us to the Supper as to the visible Word and then invite us to turn in faith toward the famine in the rest of the world – begging for and signing God’s great relief in the prayers of intercession, in the collection, and in the sending.
Gordon Lathrop, The pastor, p67.
Preaching is a trinitarian event: enlivened by the Spirit, the words of the preacher draw the hearer into the truth of our need, into the encounter with the Crucified-Risen One and so into faith and hope in God, into the communal life that flows from the presence of the life-giving Trinity. The preacher articulates, in the terms of the texts, what God has done and is doing in the cross and resurrection of Jesus, in Baptism and Eucharist, and in the faith that these things sustain.
Gordon Lathrop, The Pastor, p. 50
The sermon should say in words from the texts the same thing the bread and cup say in sign: “the body and blood of Christ, given and shed for you. Take. Eat. Drink. Believe. Live.”
Gordon Lathrop, The Pastor, p. 47