“Yet, as it is the peculiar function of the preacher, as such, to address an audience, so it is the peculiar function of the audience, as such, to address God, as the result of the preacher’s address to them. Preaching should always end in worship” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 297).
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Sometimes preaching should end in people telling the truth more often. Or getting rid of the porn. Or bringing supper to a sick neighbor.
People who love God should live well. But that isn’t, itself, actually worship.
Romans 12 would define that as worship, right?
Preaching should aim to bring the audience up to the preacher’s level, or to a level at which they can preach to him: a well-taught student us as his teacher, etc. Its purpose is NOT to keep a perpetual audience who have been taught to sit down and shut up.