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Originally Posted by CC1
Yikes! You throw together a sermon the morning of the day you preach it? I would like to think my pastor is preaching a sermon he has been working on all week off and on.
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Thanks for your vote of confidence.
I once had a mentor...I'll save the name so that no one accuses me of name-dropping...who dared me to step up and let God really use me. He wasn't pleased with my 20-30 hours of study and preparation for sermons.
Since then I've discovered my personal strength of building the sermon around my life rather than my life around my sermon. So rather than 20+ pages of notes, it's one 3x5 notecard (good memory doesn't hurt). I'm a little envious, though, of the few who give a masterpiece of a message with no notes. Whatever works, right?
And those 30 hours can now be spent with people! Rather than studying the bible for a sermon, one can just read, love, and enjoy the bible and messages just show up!
But....whatever works, right? Wait, I've already said that.
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