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41 DMP - LEADERSHIP IN PREACHING & PASTORAL MINISTRY CONCENTRATION For core electives, also see DML-820 DMP-801 Leading through Preaching/Communication Leading well requires that biblical truth be persuasively communicated so that people can understand it and will live it. The strategic pursuit of a compelling idea is the goal of both preaching and leading. In this seminar, students combine these two pastoral disciplines in a synergistic relationship where preaching stimulates leadership and leadership creates desire and need for relevant preaching. Students discuss ways to mobilize people to pursue a ministry's mission, values and strategy through leading and preaching. In addition, students learn how to communicate vision, mission, values and purpose through a normal year's preaching. Required for DMP Concentration. Three hours. DMP-811 Relevant Biblical Preaching I Preaching is at the heart of pastoral ministry. For preaching to be relevant as God intends it must first be biblical. In this seminar, students are taught how to select and study a passage to discover the exegetical idea and how to take this exegetical idea and develop a homiletical idea with a biblical purpose. Students focus on how the sermon can be shaped to carry out that biblical purpose. Three hours. DMP-812 Relevant Biblical Preaching II Preaching must not only be biblical, it must be relevant. The gulf between the biblical world and the modern world must be bridged. Biblical truth must be applied to the everyday life of the audience. In this seminar, students examine the communication process and learn how to analyze the audiences to which they preach in order to structure sermons according to the listeners' needs. Three hours. DMP-813 Using Narrative Preaching to Raise Interest & Improve Retention People in today's culture are constantly exposed to narrative media. Many people may better listen to and remember a familiar narrative style of presentation than the traditional didactic one. Narrative literature comprises much of the biblical material and demands a special hermeneutic to understand its message. In this seminar, students will learn the unique characteristics of interpreting and preaching biblical narratives. They will also work with an entire narrative unit of Scripture in order to interpret its theological message and develop its preaching potential. Three hours. DMP-815 Preaching Creatively to Help People Listen The use of storytelling, extended illustration and various approaches to preaching develops a more interesting delivery. The seminar is intended to enhance creativity in sermon style and increase the student's ability to read scripture and preach well. Three hours. DMP-816 Expository Preaching of Old Testament Narrative Narrative preaching and preaching narrative scripture are different. The first is preaching in a narrative style. The second is preaching a narrative passage. One can preach a narrative passage in a narrative style, but also preach a narrative passage in other styles. However one preaches, the keys to preaching narrative scripture must be grasped. This seminar focuses on the development and delivery of expository sermons from O.T. narrative passages. Three hours. DMP-821 Ministering to Adults with Diverse Needs Adults have unique needs. In this seminar, a model will be developed for ministering to adults in light of the unique needs of different adult learners: young, middle, senior, singles, and single parents. Adults desire ministry that addresses the needs that they have, not the needs that others have. Students will learn