mispreach

verb

1. To preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon.

   “Obviously, preaching can mispreach and therefore reinforce common misunderstandings.”

   “If you major on the three parallel prepositional phrases in v. 16 and spend most of your time explaining and illustrating them, then you will mispreach the focus of this text.”

   “You've intrigued me with the idea that certain parables are often misinterpreted and therefore mispreached. Do you think of another parable that, because of our cultural distance, we miss the point, we miss the surprise, and we mispreach?”