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Street preaching in Germany, 2022. Open-air preaching, street preaching, or public preaching is the act of evangelizing a religious faith in public places. It is an ancient method of proselytizing a religious or social message and has been used by many cultures and religious traditions, but today it is usually associated with evangelical Protestant Christianity.
Open-air preaching is an approach to evangelism characterized by speaking in public places out in the open, generally to crowds of people at a time, using a message, sermon, or speech which spreads the gospel. Supporters of this approach note that both Jesus [2] and many of the Old Testament prophets often preached about God in public places. [3]
The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter. In religious studies, homiletics (Ancient Greek: ὁμιλητικός [1] homilētikós, from homilos, "assembled crowd, throng" [2]) is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. [1]
The sermon or homily has been an important part of Christian services since Early Christianity, and remains prominent in both Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Lay preachers sometimes figure in these traditions of worship, for example the Methodist local preachers , but in general preaching has usually been a function of the clergy .
Why church attendance matters even for non-believers. There’s a strong empirical argument that people who don’t believe in the basic tenets of any faith group should still make it a habit to ...
In societies or communities with (for example) low literacy rates, strong habits of communal worship, and/or limited mass-media, the preaching of sermons throughout networks of congregations can have important informative and prescriptive propaganda functions [30] for both civil [31] and religious authorities—which may regulate the manner ...
A relatively recent development is the appointment of Worship Leaders who are members of the local church and authorised to share in the leading of worship there. All preachers and worship leaders are offered additional resources for shaping worship and preaching by their own charity, the Leaders of Worship and Preachers' Trust (LWPT) which ...
Horton M. Davies, a professor at Princeton University, states: "What is fascinating about (the liturgical) movement is that it has enabled Protestant churches to recover in part the Catholic liturgical heritage, while the Catholics seem to have appropriated the Protestant valuation of preaching, of shared worship in the vernacular tongue, and ...