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Preaching is an integrative process. Integration is a powerful concept. Better than balance (which implies compromise), integration describes the way in which polarized things (text and today; head and heart) are brought together so that the integrity of both elements is strictly maintained. The integrative model for preaching then, can be structured as a circle:
This model could be understood as a map in which various preachers could plot their sermons in any of the four quadrants. Some sermons, for instance, emphasize the text and the head. Others the heart and today. The model could be seen as one of those radar screens, seen on old black and white World War II movies. As the dial sweeps around, the screen bleeps for certain sermons as they are discovered on the grid. A truly integrative sermon, however, will sweep the entire dial, covering all the territory, not compromising any part of the model:
This kind of preaching then, will view the sermon holistically, integrating the text with the heart, the text and the head, the head with today, and the heart with today:
A sermon that integrates these major concerns will have a better chance of speaking effectively to diverse groups of people. Such a sermon will not require the preacher to make unnacceptable choices in their struggle to preach such that everybody hears from God.