The Christian discourse has some degree of involvement in doubt, the sermon operates absolutely, solely with authority: scriptural, or of the apostles. In a sermon, then, it is absolute heresy to get involved with doubts, however well one knows how to handle them[...] A sermon presupposes a priest (ordination); the Christian discourse[r] can be an ordinary person.
Soren Kierkegaard, Papers and Journals
I would rather have a proper dialogue than a hundred wonderful sermons. Unfortunately both are as complicated to find.
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