The author's thesis is that preaching and teaching have become artificially separated and that reconnecting these two ministries of the Word would strengthen both. He researched ways that preaching and teaching were used in the Gospels, Acts, and the Lutheran Confessional writings. He also sought input from contemporary writing in homiletics and in Christian education. He reported on ways that he particularly linked the sermon and the Sunday School in his parish. He concluded that the line separating preaching from teaching is so elusive that it is appropriate to link them, seeing them as partners in God's Word.
