Unleash your church's potential to change the world in only 8 sermons! What if you could preach the Word of God in a way that inspired your congregation to do the work of Christ in this world, promoting justice and reaching out with real help to those who are suffering? Imagine if your local church became a conduit for God's blessings and will to flow out to the surrounding communities! Rev. Dr. Joel Damon Taylor is State President of the Illinois National Baptist State Convention, a member of the Evangelical Board of the NBCA, and Director of the NBCA Int'l Congress of Christian Education and Discipleship. Dr. Taylor, who pastors a church in inner-city Chicago, became concerned about his congregation's apathy toward the social ills around them, so he developed sermons that would motivate Christians to engage in transformative social activism. In this book, you'll find: -The keys to powerful preaching that reaches beyond Sunday morning -Proof that God is a social activist -8 sermons designed to encourage Christians to carry out Christ's ministry to the whole man -BONUS content revealing the process and results of the original action research God does not mean for believers to keep the hope we have in Christ holed up within the walls of the church building. He is calling the Christian community to an active discipleship that brings His hope to the hopeless and tends the wounds of the downtrodden! Pick up your copy of Prophetic Preaching NOW and turn your church into a beacon of light in this ever-darkening world!