“The effective sermon is not simply a report on what the preacher may or may not think. Rather, the engaging sermon engages the hearers, it takes them somewhere they would not go without the power of the sermon. It makes a claim upon the hearers. They understand themselves to be addressed, summoned because it is clear that the preacher has also been addressed, summoned by the very word the preacher is attempting to preach.”
–William Willimon, Preaching Master Class (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010), 24.
