This thesis project examines the gifts and challenges of being a Christian preacher who focuses on the expansive gospel of Jesus Christ through the lens of religious and cultural pluralism. The complexity of lens includes the academic community in which this ministry is based. This pluralism is not only cultural, but it includes the wide spectrum of Christianity, interreligious diversity, persons who identify as Spiritual but not Religious, and persons within the spectrum of non-theism. A platform of welcome, inclusion and Christian hospitality is integrated not only in the mission of the Gospel Service ministry, but it also undergirds the preacher’s hermeneutic and theology. The writer believes that all people have what Augustine calls a tug on the spirit and a restlessness that calls all of us to God. This work seeks to demonstrate that the Gospel is big enough for all people. There is enough room in God’s love for all creation. In affirming this, the hope is that it will lead to lives that are transformed.
