Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Preaching Off Script

I'm about to start advertising my new workshop big time. It's called Preaching Off Script.  I've a passion to help pastors become preachers instead of readers. Oh my... did that pinch your toes or hurt your feelings? I know that pastors spend hours and hours and hours writing sermons. Then some even go so far as to memorize them. But what if you only took notes of your thoughts and let the sermon or homily flow from the currency of your faith?
More eye contact? More trust? More God.

Then I think about me offering this up to church culture. Oh shoot I just want to offer something popular and I so know this will not be popular. And yet my passion for the dynamic of immediate faith that will come from that which happens between congregation and pastor ( compatriot believer) when they are not being read to, no matter how passionately will change the world. Faith alive in action in the sanctuary.

And then I think of my friends who are excellent preachers who read their sermons and I think I am a bad person for placing judgment on what happens in the pulpit. Or am I a good person for believing there could be more in the twenty minutes that takes place ( or ten depending on your persuasion or the schedule of the service) ?

This is a good thing. This movement for pastors who preach directly from their hearts in real time.
I will proceed. Interested in learning how? Let me know.
Love
Deborah