With regard to my sermon on the healing of the blind man (Luke 18:35-43), I have only completed the first draft of my first point. (I would have liked to cancel out the "...first draft of my..." but I am still not sure about the clarity, relevance, choice of words, illustration, explanations... basically everything.) I thank God for the ample time I have left to work on my sermon - so that I can slowly research, brew the sermon and listen to God more intently.
From today onwards, I will try to take notes of my sermon-writing journeys, so that I can (1) destress, (2) think out of the box of my sermon's Microsoft Word file, and (3) look back in the future and learn from my silly mistakes.
Yups, yups... so the first point is essentially about how Christians should be humble so that the light of Christ may continue to shine into our hearts and help us to hope - especially when we face trials and tribulations. Without hope, there is no truth to hold on to... and despair results. The proud one would then be in a tunnel with no light at the end. My experience in working on my sermon so far was also quite like me walking along a pitch-black tunnel with no light at the end to grant me purpose, vision and relief. After groping valiantly for about for a few days, the light appeared - and there is now more hope! But it did take a lot of humbling at first. When I was proud and depended more on myself than God, all light disappeared - like how animals run to their burrows and holes when danger is sensed.
Ok...don't think I will put that into my sermon though.
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