And if the Word isn't being preached in a way that relates to people's lives, well, there's not much chance they're going to find meaning in the Eucharist.
One of my favourite musical-like experiences is The Gospel at Colonus, by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, which tells the story of Oedipus as if it is being preached in an African American church.
Citing Houston as "a mentor", Morrison is a proud and public worshipper at the Horizon Church, which, like Hillsong, is Pentecostal, and similarly an "American-style mega-church... where the gospel of prosperity is preached in an auditorium that can accommodate over 1,000 evangelicals" as described in a 2012 profile of Morrison in the Monthly.
For every 2 sermons in English, 1 will be preached in German.
It's preaching in a fancy form.
In 1986, Mr. Phillips was preaching in a different church there when a gunman shot him and a parishioner.
Father Egan's work with addicts began in 1952, when he was preaching in a church in Manhattan and saw a troubled woman.
On the surface, cross-legged, in a brightly colored robe, a man with a halo was preaching in a flower garden.
The church never gave up its hold on Baldwin, who was preaching in a Pentecostal church at 13, but he gave it up to write.
There is little hint that the authorities believed the Deghayes boys were at risk of becoming radicalised – even though allegations had been made to police in 1997 that their father, Abubaker, had been preaching in a manner that might "incite racial unrest" and "reflected strong al-Qaida sympathies".
