Between text & sermon: Micah 3: 5-12

Interpretation | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

GIVEN OUR TURBULENT TIMES, SOME MIGHT JUMP at the opportunity to preach on Mic 3:5-12 because it invites one to burst forth in fury against false prophets. Others, in a spirit of humility, might avoid this passage altogether and find another text on which to anchor a sermon. Both responses are problematic. The problem with the former lies not in the lack of false prophets among us but in the difficulty of identifying false prophets and the danger that such attacks pose to us. The problem with the latter is that we risk missing out on a powerful lesson about the nature of theological ...

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