Preaching

I gave my sermon for the Preaching for Partners class on the 10th of October. I was really nervous, mostly due to the fact that my outline did not come together until the night before. I prayed a lot for help to deliver the Word of God to the women in my class in a way that would encourage and edify them. And all in all, things went well, by God's grace. There are certainly things to work on. And there are ways I can grow, but it was really sweet to try out putting together an expositional talk. Why? Because, by the spirit, we can preach a passage, that was written in a certain time and place, and conform to it's structure and it's intention for the church today, for the sake of the edification of the body and the proclamation of the gospel. This exercise has made me think more and more about the meta-narrative of scripture, which I will be blogging about soon. Praise God for the faithful men who proclaim the truth for the world to hear!