This was a fairly easy book to write because most of the work had already been
done during sermon preparation.
Can your congregation
do that during a sermon?
Not exact matches
While he didn't address March for Our Lives or gun violence explicitly
during his Palm Sunday
sermon, Pope Francis
did shine a light on all the young people involved in the movement, telling the tens of thousands before him: «Young people, you have it in you to shout.
Usually, with bully pastors, those
doing actual church work (paid or volunteer) are bullied, while many of them tend to come across dynamic and interesting to the pew - sitter
during sermons.
We don't believe, like some protestants
do about their pastors, that the spirit speaks through him
during his
sermons, etc.He is a man.
During his
sermon at the landmark, Dr Sentamu said: «In this re-designation, God by his spirit is
doing a new thing - offering to all who receive it a fresh start with God and with each other in this City of Culture 2017.»
My method of dialogue
during my
sermons should testify on my behalf that I don't think I have all the answers and that we should discover truth together, as difficult as that may be.
When we look across the room
during the
sermon or out in the lobby or through the computer screen on Facebook,
do we see brothers and sisters or
do we see strangers?
What spoke to me through this story, is how much this pastor knew the people in his church (you and I have the same definition of church, however I'm using the word here as it applies to this group of people I feel the problem in many churches today (and why dialogue
during sermons wouldn't go over well) is that the pastors
do not take the time to invest in the people they are trying to teach.
«If we can tell you what to
do in the bedroom, we can certainly tell you what to
do in the voting booth,» said the Minnesota minister, an evangelical leader of a nondenominational church, who expects to endorse Republican John McCain
during his «Pulpit Freedom Sunday»
sermon.
In 2004 in a Baptist Church in Waynesville, NC
during the Sunday worship service
sermon a preacher told his congregation that they weren't true Christians if they didn't vote for George W. Bush.
Some don't even respect His presence (chewing and popping gum
during the
sermon, talking
during worship, drinking coffee in church).
Not only
do Christians watch violent R - rated movies, we'll quote them from the pulpit, build
sermon series around them — even show clips from them
during service.
Obviously, Jesus
did not die so that people could show up and sit in a pew on Sunday morning and snore
during the
sermon.
During an animated discussion with a colleague about a course listed in our catalogue entitled, «The Oral Performance of Scripture and
Sermon,» he turned to me and said: «You don't think of preaching as a performance,
do you?»
There is no reason people couldn't
do the same thing
during a
sermon.
During this time, he paid a visit to the Alps, which he said, «
did far more for me than all the
sermons I had ever heard» (17).