Interview
R. Kent Hughes
by Art Azurdia
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AA: Kent, in what ways do you expect to be investing in ministry in this stage of your life?
RKH: What I’m going to be doing as I get rooted here in Spokane is conducting eight-day residential seminars on biblical exposition. The preparation might be to read the book of Ephesians twenty times consecutively in the six weeks before arriving including reading the Greek two or three times if the pastor knows the language. We would sit down and get the whole theme of the book under our belts on the initial day. I’d help people work through that and then we would divide it up into homiletical sections, working from principle on how to preach the whole book. Devotions would come out of it, studies would come out of it, preaching would come out of it. I plan to work with pastors in small groups so that when they go back to their churches, they might have twenty-five homiletical sections with rudimentary skeleton outlines and a few expositions prepared, and they would be able to explain the theme of the book, the structure of the book, and the theme of all those passages.
AA: Sounds great. Sounds like it will be very wonderful. And do you expect to be teaching Doctor of Ministry courses and the like?
RKH: Yes, I will teach some, but I don’t want to get myself so overbooked. I made the mistake during my first few months of retirement of saying “yes” to everything, and I wasn’t even here during the first two months. So I’m trying to really keep control of my life.
AA: Well, I hope these prove to be happy days for you.
RKH: Thanks, Art.
R. Kent Hughes will be addressing The Spurgeon Fellowship on September 9, 2008.
