Comments on: What It’s Like to Preach a Sermon http://odpcsermons.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/what-its-like-to-preach-a-sermon/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: odpcsermons http://odpcsermons.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/what-its-like-to-preach-a-sermon/#comment-48 odpcsermons Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:53:04 +0000 http://odpcsermons.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-48 Hmmm. Cathartic. I guess it can be. Not to make preaching solipsistic, but there is something incredibly rewarding and refreshing when you're used by God to teach his word. Of course, that is not my final motivation in the end. Sola Dei Gloria, right? But yes, preaching can be cathartic. On the flip side, preaching can crush you and absolutely deflate you too. I guess it depends on the week. Dihan Hmmm. Cathartic. I guess it can be. Not to make preaching solipsistic, but there is something incredibly rewarding and refreshing when you’re used by God to teach his word. Of course, that is not my final motivation in the end. Sola Dei Gloria, right? But yes, preaching can be cathartic. On the flip side, preaching can crush you and absolutely deflate you too. I guess it depends on the week.

Dihan

]]> By: dankang http://odpcsermons.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/what-its-like-to-preach-a-sermon/#comment-45 dankang Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:22:56 +0000 http://odpcsermons.wordpress.com/?p=68#comment-45 do you find preaching to be cathartic? it's interesting to note how you describe preaching to be such a visceral experience. i often wonder if preaching for some pastors, is manifested as some form of self-fulfillment. antoine st. exupery once described it to the effect of "releas[ing] the prince asleep within him unknown to himself" which ultimately, constituted his truth. perhaps exupery is right ... who knows if there is a sort of logic to preaching. on my end, i look forward to each and every sunday with tabula rasa in mind. what will God say to me today? how will he provoke or convict me? my favorite part of any sermon ... is that moment of pause right before a pastor begins to speak. not because i know there is so much potential in the next hour to come, but because it is the beginning of something new - sometimes practiced, maybe unknown - but yet another journey into the Word. do you find preaching to be cathartic?

it’s interesting to note how you describe preaching to be such a visceral experience.

i often wonder if preaching for some pastors, is manifested as some form of self-fulfillment. antoine st. exupery once described it to the effect of “releas[ing] the prince asleep within him unknown to himself” which ultimately, constituted his truth.

perhaps exupery is right … who knows if there is a sort of logic to preaching.

on my end, i look forward to each and every sunday with tabula rasa in mind. what will God say to me today? how will he provoke or convict me? my favorite part of any sermon … is that moment of pause right before a pastor begins to speak. not because i know there is so much potential in the next hour to come, but because it is the beginning of something new – sometimes practiced, maybe unknown – but yet another journey into the Word.

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