Finding Our Voice: A Vision for Asian North American Preaching

No one preaches in a cultural vacuum.

The message of what God has done in Christ is good news to all, but to have the greatest impact on its hearers--or even to be understood at all--it must be culturally contextualized.

Finding Our Voice speaks clearly to an issue that has largely been ignored: preaching to Asian North American (ANA) contexts. In addition to reworking hermeneutics, theology, and homiletics for these overlooked contexts, Kim and Wong include examples of culturally-specific sermons and instructive questions for contextualizing one's own sermons.

Finding Our Voice is essential reading for all who preach and teach in ANA contexts. By examining this kind of contextualization in action, all who preach in their own unique contexts will benefit from this approach.

Matthew D. Kim (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is the George F. Bennett Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology, director of the Haddon W. Robinson Center for Preaching, and director of mentored ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. He is a past president of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. He served as a youth pastor, college pastor, and senior pastor in Asian American congregations. He is the author of several books, including Preaching to a Divided Nation, Preaching to People in Pain, and Preaching with Cultural Intelligence.

Daniel L. Wong (DMin, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of Christian ministries at Tyndale University in Toronto, where he has served for many years in English Ministry in Chinese churches. He has spoken at numerous venues in Asian and multicultural churches in Canada and the United States.