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Because Korean society and citizens give very low credibility to the Korean Christians and Korean churches, Korean preachers should seek to practice ethical preaching in order to recover ethical holiness and moral excellence in the Korean Christianity. Ethical preaching tries to
connect the preached message on the pulpit with moral excellence in the social lives of believers. In order to prepare ethical preaching, preacher need an ethical interpretative strategy of the Bible. Because the Bible is neither a moral prescription book nor an ethical manual,
literal interpretation is not desirable for ethical preaching. Even though the Bible is not a moral prescription book, its ancient texts tell and show us, modern readers and preachers, how to listen to the moral implications there as the ancient believers did, and how to live holy lives under the salvation and ruling of God. For an integrative ethical interpretation strategy of the Bible, three components: God, His people, and the sphere of God􀁳s ruling, should combine together in a triangular paradigm of the biblical interpretation. As another necessary strategy for ethical preaching, the preacher also needs to consider a faith community where an ethical preaching
message is applied and practiced by those who listened to the message. For this purpose, the preacher should analyze the ethical situation of the congregation, and decide the ethical degree to which can help them to change after preaching. And the preacher also needs to combine the individual ethic and the community ethic, and practice pastoral leadership for transforming ethical lives of the congregation.