“We have the text, we believe, as a gracious gift of a God determined not to leave us to our own devices. What happened on Easter, namely, Jesus coming back to us, refusing to leave us alone, intruding among us, is what happens each Sunday in the reading and preaching of the text. Scripture, read and preached, is Easter all over again. And, thank God, we never exhaust the significance of it, despite our most thorough interpretive efforts, for the text and the world it renders is thick. There is always a surplus of meaning, even after the longest of our sermons.”
-William Willimon, Preaching Master Class (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010), 72.
