the BLACK PREACHER: a Voice in Fire: Theology, Bible, and Burden of Preaching Office to Hurting People

For four centuries, a voice has been speaking from the center of the fire. Not beside it. Not about it. From within it.THE BLACK PREACHER: A Voice in the Fire is not a history of Black preaching. It is its theology.Rev. Dr. Billy J. Hill - Baptist minister, U.S. Army veteran, and internationally selling author with decades in the preaching office - builds the biblical and theological case for the Black preaching office as a divine stationing inside three simultaneous fires: the fire of God's presence, the fire of the word itself, and the fire of a hurting people's suffering. From Moses at the burning bush to Paul in the Roman prison, from the Day of Pentecost to the brush arbor to the twenty-first century digital pulpit, this work lays the theological ground for what the office is, what it costs, and why it must not fail the people to whom it has been sent.Twenty chapters. Five movements: - THE FIRE THAT CALLS - the theology of the call as divine conscription, not human career choice- THE VOICE IN THE FIRE - the Bible, the sounded word, the whoop, the moan, and the crisis of the digital pulpit- SENT TO A HURTING PEOPLE - the covenant between the preacher and the congregation- THE BURDEN THAT CONSUMES - the prosperity gospel, the celebrity trap, moral failure, and the broom tree- PASSING THE FIRE - succession, the next generation, and the eschatology of the officeWith full scholarly apparatus: endnotes, classified bibliography, lexicon of key Greek and Hebrew terms, Scripture index, subject and name index, and a pastoral self-examination for those who carry the office.Academy. Pulpit. Pew. Written for all three."Woe unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" - 1 Corinthians 9:16