Teaching that is. I feel like like it shouldn't be this hard.
Jono, the high school pastor at Kingsfield church, has asked me to teach this week on Romans 14. The title in my bible is, "The Law of Liberty." which seemed at first glance to be an easy topic. My quick assessment was on Romans 14:1-13 and its topic of Gray matters within the church ( drinking, speaking in tongues and even playing drums in church etc) was something I've heard multiple times myself and so I thought I could easily hammer out a 20-25 minute study on it myself. I've been wrestling with this text since yesterday, reading commentaries, reading a greater part of the book of Romans over and over again, and still had no headway whatsoever.
I thought this was supposed to be easy, yet the amount of time I'd spent on assessing the text at hand just seemed to mean absolutely nothing.
Yet in my anxiety, frustrations and confusion, God reminded me of this verse,
"If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, than in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4:11.
1 Peter 4:11.
When I first read this verse I was in tanzania and in a similar dilemma, and the truth of this verse shouted out to me the confidence I needed to stand up and preach.
So here I am.
My notes are just about done after about another 2 hours since I read 1 Peter and to say the least I'm really excited about tomorrow. I feel as though things have really started to fall into place. I changed a lot of what I was going to say, but I feel like this is where God wants it.
I once heard that the best of novelists start living out their stories in their head, and that's what makes a really great read. I know for myself, as a reader, I oftentimes enjoy stories the most once I write myself into the story at hand as one of the characters. For tomorrow, I feel like I've already been preached to by the Word, as if it's hit home, and so maybe, I'll be able to properly and adequately preach the message at hand.
Be praying.
So here I am.
My notes are just about done after about another 2 hours since I read 1 Peter and to say the least I'm really excited about tomorrow. I feel as though things have really started to fall into place. I changed a lot of what I was going to say, but I feel like this is where God wants it.
I once heard that the best of novelists start living out their stories in their head, and that's what makes a really great read. I know for myself, as a reader, I oftentimes enjoy stories the most once I write myself into the story at hand as one of the characters. For tomorrow, I feel like I've already been preached to by the Word, as if it's hit home, and so maybe, I'll be able to properly and adequately preach the message at hand.
Be praying.
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