Abstract
In preaching circles, the term prophetic is often set over against pastoral, the former a harsher style of preaching, the latter more comforting. It would be more accurate to contrast prophetic and priestly, both of them appropriate in pastoral ministry. As such, the author of Luke-Acts can serve as a model for prophetic preaching in the pastorate for a variety of reasons: 1) the Evangelist lived among a people of God and had some measure of a pastoral charge; 2) the Evangelist sought to tell the story of Jesus and the Church for a different context some forty years later; and 3) Luke's Gospel is more focused on the prophetic ministry of Jesus than the other Gospels, and therefore, related issues of justice.
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