“Preaching is seeing the gap between what we live and what we imagine we are living, getting deeply involved with the poor and dismantling the ideological political economic apparatus of control and destruction that structures our lives under signs of ‘justice’ while it continues to undermines our lives.”
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Preaching for the 21st century must be a collective event and not an individual one anymore. Preaching is a combination of collective and critically reading our reality, seeing the gap between what we live and what we imagine we are living, getting deeply involved with the poor and dismantling the ideological political economic apparatus of control and destruction that structures our lives under signs of justice while it continues to undermines our lives. We face these systems by using metaphors that put the gospel on the side of the poor. Language and action, faith and worship, Bible reading and many other sources, prayers of mercy and shouts of justice, a powerful ideology of the gospel in metaphors that place us all on the side of the poor and the side of life. All of these things bursting both from our pulpits and our streets, feeding each other until we lose the capacity to know where God’s love comes from.”
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