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 I just bombed my sermon (L) |
Dave Dorsey |
Thought this might be an encouraging article, or something to store away for when that day inevitably comes...
http://www.doctrineanddevotion.com/blog/i-just-bombed-my-sermon
| Quote: | I just bombed my sermon. It is Sunday afternoon and I am standing on the other side of a mess of a sermon. Times like this make it hard not to get down about my place in the ministry. Old sayings spoken by wiser pastors fly through my head; “they can’t all be home runs†or “it was the message someone needed to hear.†These sayings contain truth but this truth is hard to get your heart to feel.
If you have ever given a sermon, you have felt this sense of “bombing†a sermon. It is the sense that you didn’t connect. It is the sense of not being able to articulate a concept the way you thought you could. It is the sense of having a challenge fall flat in front of the congregation. It is the sense of being judged and found wanting in your skills as a speaker and preacher. It is not a good feeling.
So what do we do when we experience it? I have thought of 4 things that help me and they just might help you... |
There's also a great corollary article titied "My Pastor Just Bombed a Sermon":
http://www.doctrineanddevotion.com/blog/my-pastor-just-bombed-a-sermon |
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| Wait a minute! Are y'all telling me... |
Aaron Scott |
| Dave Dorsey wrote: | Thought this might be an encouraging article, or something to store away for when that day inevitably comes...
http://www.doctrineanddevotion.com/blog/i-just-bombed-my-sermon
| Quote: | I just bombed my sermon. It is Sunday afternoon and I am standing on the other side of a mess of a sermon. Times like this make it hard not to get down about my place in the ministry. Old sayings spoken by wiser pastors fly through my head; “they can’t all be home runs†or “it was the message someone needed to hear.†These sayings contain truth but this truth is hard to get your heart to feel.
If you have ever given a sermon, you have felt this sense of “bombing†a sermon. It is the sense that you didn’t connect. It is the sense of not being able to articulate a concept the way you thought you could. It is the sense of having a challenge fall flat in front of the congregation. It is the sense of being judged and found wanting in your skills as a speaker and preacher. It is not a good feeling.
So what do we do when we experience it? I have thought of 4 things that help me and they just might help you... |
There's also a great corollary article titied "My Pastor Just Bombed a Sermon":
http://www.doctrineanddevotion.com/blog/my-pastor-just-bombed-a-sermon |
Wait a minute! Are y'all telling me that y'all don't blame God for the train wreck???
Look, I studied. I prepared. I even got up early and went over it again and again. If I flop, who else am I supposed to blame, if not God?
Didn't God know who would be there? Didn't he know that Bro. Grumpy Face would be there and it would be discouraging? Didn't he know that the sound system would act up and mess up a lot of worship songs?
So, yeah, I did my part. Will everyone kindly just agree that it's GOD'S fault, for once? Whose fault do you think it was that Adam and Eve fell? Satan's? Eve's? HA! Who made them both? Who ALLOWED Satan to slither into the Garden to speak doubt and deceit into Eve's life?
Yep. It's time we called a spade a spade. |
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1/31/18 11:52 am
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| Re: Wait a minute! Are y'all telling me... |
Cojak |
| Aaron Scott wrote: | | Dave Dorsey wrote: | Thought this might be an encouraging article, or something to store away for when that day inevitably comes...
http://www.doctrineanddevotion.com/blog/i-just-bombed-my-sermon
| Quote: | I just bombed my sermon. It is Sunday afternoon and I am standing on the other side of a mess of a sermon. Times like this make it hard not to get down about my place in the ministry. Old sayings spoken by wiser pastors fly through my head; “they can’t all be home runs†or “it was the message someone needed to hear.†These sayings contain truth but this truth is hard to get your heart to feel.
If you have ever given a sermon, you have felt this sense of “bombing†a sermon. It is the sense that you didn’t connect. It is the sense of not being able to articulate a concept the way you thought you could. It is the sense of having a challenge fall flat in front of the congregation. It is the sense of being judged and found wanting in your skills as a speaker and preacher. It is not a good feeling.
So what do we do when we experience it? I have thought of 4 things that help me and they just might help you... |
There's also a great corollary article titied "My Pastor Just Bombed a Sermon":
http://www.doctrineanddevotion.com/blog/my-pastor-just-bombed-a-sermon |
Wait a minute! Are y'all telling me that y'all don't blame God for the train wreck???
Look, I studied. I prepared. I even got up early and went over it again and again. If I flop, who else am I supposed to blame, if not God?
Didn't God know who would be there? Didn't he know that Bro. Grumpy Face would be there and it would be discouraging? Didn't he know that the sound system would act up and mess up a lot of worship songs?
So, yeah, I did my part. Will everyone kindly just agree that it's GOD'S fault, for once? Whose fault do you think it was that Adam and Eve fell? Satan's? Eve's? HA! Who made them both? Who ALLOWED Satan to slither into the Garden to speak doubt and deceit into Eve's life?
Yep. It's time we called a spade a spade. |
I heard a Baptist preacher once who said, "I knowed it, I knowed it, I just knowed it, someone would find a way to blame God!"  
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| Re: Wait a minute! Are y'all telling me... |
Dave Dorsey |
| Aaron Scott wrote: | So, yeah, I did my part. Will everyone kindly just agree that it's GOD'S fault, for once? Whose fault do you think it was that Adam and Eve fell? Satan's? Eve's? HA! Who made them both? Who ALLOWED Satan to slither into the Garden to speak doubt and deceit into Eve's life?
Yep. It's time we called a spade a spade. |
Though God permits both, He is neither the author of evil nor the author of your awful sermons.  |
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