Doctrine That Dances

CNLP 826 | How to Preach Through Controversial Topics: Charlie Dates on What White Preachers and Black Preachers Can Learn From Each Other and Preaching So a Dead Room Wakes Up

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 27 August 2026. The book comes up at 23 min 0 sec in.

Charlie Dates briefly invokes the phrase "exegetical escort" from Robert Smith's Doctrine That Dances to describe his approach to preaching: guiding the congregation through a text as a movement or dance rather than working through a formally announced outline.

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