Sunday, 14 October 2007
And yet more preaching
Yes, I am still alive.
I preached at the 8 and 9 am services at St Mary's, Karori this morning. This was my first ever atempt at any sort of planned public speaking without notes. I have had feed back that my previous preaching efforts relied a little too much on note reading so I decided to do away with them completely.
I got to choose my reading from Acts 6, so I went with v1-7 as an excuse to diverge off into some more church history, asking the question "can we see God at work in the history of the Church?" I looked at some examples including the choosing of the seven from the reading and pointed out some ways in which these very human-looking situations could actually reflect God at work.
Sadly, none of my material was anywhere near controversial, so I'm not expecting any formal complaints this time. I'll try harder in the future.
I preached at the 8 and 9 am services at St Mary's, Karori this morning. This was my first ever atempt at any sort of planned public speaking without notes. I have had feed back that my previous preaching efforts relied a little too much on note reading so I decided to do away with them completely.
I got to choose my reading from Acts 6, so I went with v1-7 as an excuse to diverge off into some more church history, asking the question "can we see God at work in the history of the Church?" I looked at some examples including the choosing of the seven from the reading and pointed out some ways in which these very human-looking situations could actually reflect God at work.
Sadly, none of my material was anywhere near controversial, so I'm not expecting any formal complaints this time. I'll try harder in the future.
# posted by Gareth Bezett @ 1:34 PM 
