[B-Greek] Reply OFF-LIST: Use of Greek in sermons
Andrew C. Suttles
andrew.suttles at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 09:19:53 EST 2009
Jeffrey T. Requadt wrote (on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 at 10:14 -0700):
> Greetings to the list. I haven't written since the summer, but I have been
> following most of the discussions. Something about teaching and having a new
> baby really takes up your time.
>
> Please reply strictly off-list, since this issue is beyond the parameters of
> B-Greek, but I know of no better group of people to respond to my questions.
> What would you say are guidelines or parameters for a preaching using NT
> Greek (or Hebrew, because it's the same issue) in a sermon, almost always
> with an audience who has no education in biblical languages? Related to this
> is, what is the value of learning Greek (and Hebrew) for the different
> purposes of studying and preaching? And a third question is, what is the
> value of teaching a few years of Greek and Hebrew to seminarians? I have my
> own opinions on the matter (some of which have surfaced in the list, I'm
> sure), but I really wanted to hear what other people have to say, especially
> those who have been serving in ministry.
>
>
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> Jeffrey T. Requadt
>
> Dietz Elementary
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> (520) 731-4000
Greek/Hebrew in the pulput usually serves one of two purposes:
1) To create a perception of authority on behalf of the speaker
2) To make a text say other than it says
I'm no linguist, but it seems to me that a sentence or clause completes a
thought and words are but building blocks to that end. Very often, "Greek word
studies" result in a sentence worth of information crammed into a mere word.
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