Friday, July 10
Poets, Prophets, Preachers, part II
Possibly the best part of the conference ‘Poets, Prophets, Preachers’ is the subtitle: Reclaiming the Art of the Sermon.
What a joy to be in a place where we could explore throughout approximately 15 hours of teaching how to reclaim this lost art.
Here are some of my favorite words…
The sermon is a reminder that this life isn’t what God had in mind. People need to be reminded that they’ve settled.
A sermon should be a ‘talk that starts talks’. (this idea that we’re not to be Bible Answer Men/Women, but that we learn to ask the right questions) Use to be that the preacher gave the last word, but today it’s the first word.
The sermon has the power to create whole new worlds because it is the insistence that through the resurrection of Jesus a whole new world is bursting…
We have two choices in our approach to preaching: 1- We stand up each week ‘having something to say’, or 2- We stand up there because ‘we have to say something’.
Oh, may this art form, this gift from God, be ever increasing for the good…
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