The job
of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given
gospel to the given world,» The given
gospel — that is to say, the
gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his
preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual
concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the
gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.