Well, one thing I hope is that these messages have been helpful to you
so far, because I know that they have been helpful for me, they are
difficult messages to hear but they are also difficult messages to
preach.
Because as the congregation, you only get the one hour abridged
version of these issues here Sunday morning, it is the pastor who has
to immerse himself in these thoughts and studies on these topics, not
just in the Sunday morning service hour, but hour after hour, day
after day, and sometimes week after week. And the contrast from my
previous occupation of fixing cars to the studying and preaching,
especially with these next few messages is in-comparable. And what I
mean by that is, as an auto mechanic, when that clock showed 4:30,
my tools went into the toolbox and I washed my hands, removed my
coveralls, and I was free. |
