The history of Christianity is the history of preaching, for it is the history of the confession of faith in the lives of Christians based on the Bible as the Word of God and the proclamation of that Word. Faith is not an epistemological explanation of concepts or propositions, but is fundamentally ontological and can be explained in terms of existential issues of life. However, due to the influence of Greek philosophy under Plato and the Enlightenment in the 18th century, the history of biblical interpretation for preaching in Christianity is largely filled with a history of rationalistic interpretation, and the pulpit has often functioned as a place to convey information and not as a place for transformation of the lives of the listeners. Unfortunately, the reality of preaching in the Korean church is not much different. To discover an alternative, this paper examines Henry Mitchell's homiletics, which theologically establishes the history and faith of the African-American church in North America and explains the most representative pastoral function that has shaped their faith: preaching. In the midst of a preaching world dominated by reason, Mitchell addresses the importance of emotion in biblical interpretation and preaching practice, emphasizing the need to understand preaching as an emotional conversation between God and the listeners. This emotional approach leads him to argue for a reconsideration of the Holy Spirit, who has been relatively marginalized in Trinitarian theology, an understanding of the Bible as revelation, a theological reading of the Bible that seeks to read God’s emotions, the use of stories for emotional engagement with the listener as partner in the preaching process, and the importance of the use of rhetoric such as repetition for the faith-consciousness of the church. In this sense, his homiletics suggests that preaching is not simply a time and place for the presentation of doctrines and ideas, but a place for the presentation of our lives before God, and this is an alternative that can provide good wisdom for the pulpits of the Korean church.