Narrative preaching connects deeply with people because everyone loves a story. Life itself unfolds through stories, and the Bible is filled with them. Ezekiel Ajibade explores how preachers can communicate God’s truth through storytelling that is artistic, rhetorical, and theological. By praying, selecting complete plots, using imagination, and structuring sermons inductively, preachers can engage listeners’ hearts and minds. Narrative preaching helps people not just hear Scripture but experience its transforming power.
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Ezekiel Ajibade, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Christian Preaching and the President of the African Homiletics Society. He is also a Fellow of the Stephen Olford Center for Biblical Preaching, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and a Visiting Scholar to Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He is the Regional Director for the International Orality Network, Africa. He has published several books and academic journals, including Expository Preaching in Africa: Engaging Orality for Effective Proclamation. He currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria, where he is the Rector of the Baptist College of Theology. He is happily married to Olajoke and blessed with Sharon and Victor.
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