Abstract
This article reported on the second cycle (selective coding) of grounded theory research of sermons on poverty in the South African context, with Matthew 25:31�46 as the sermon text. The problem which the author was researching pertained to the question: How do congregations in the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) and the Uniting Reformed Church handle the care for the poor in practice? A theoretical sample of congregations with outreach projects to the poor and humble was drawn. After the analysis of the sermons was conducted, the next question to be addressed was: What are the categories and properties of the projects by congregations as the how of the care for the poor? New thinking on the issue of preaching on poverty is necessary because homiletic literature in this field of preaching does not address the how question. The author therefore described a theoretical framework for the interpretation of the projects, as well as an anthropological view of the communication occurring on an equal footing, with the givers in the projects functioning as social capital and the receivers (the poor and humble) as the participants with their own responsibility and freedom. The classification of the projects in categories showed that a wide variety of different types of projects to the poor have emerged from the sermons.
Highlights
I report on the second cycle of sermon analysis on Matthew 25:31–46, namely selective coding
Many congregations run http://www.ve.org.za the same kind of projects they do not overlap, because each one happens in the context of the vicinity of each specific congregation
My survey of the literature in Pieterse (2009) has shown that homiletical literature is calling for preaching on poverty, but does not say clearly how to preach on poverty
Summary
I report on the second cycle of sermon analysis on Matthew 25:31–46, namely selective coding. The potential core variable in this case is appealing to the listeners to care for the poor by the actions of the congregation, which is related to the final appeal by the preachers from Matthew 25:31–46 in the 12 analysed sermons of the open coding cycle, as well as to the third hypothesis in the open coding analytical model. 2. describe the theoretical framework in which the results of care for the poor by means of projects by the congregations from the sermons in selective coding will be interpreted
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