Last
Sunday after church, my dad commented that he thought my Sunday School lesson
was quite a bit better than my sermon.
I spent
all week pondering this observation.
At
first, I wasn’t surprised because I have always had trouble “shifting gears”
when teaching. What I mean by that is,
to teach for an hour on one Bible message and then shift to a totally different
Bible message 30 minutes later…. Is just a tad more flexible than I am gifted
for.
Anyway,
I came to a startling realization. In order to balance the natural order of
things, this Sunday, I must either teach a lower quality Sunday School lesson
or preach a lower quality sermon.
For
those of you literalists reading this ~ I apologize ~
this is
my feeble attempt at humor.
For
those of you that attend my services ~ I apologize.
The
problem with me posting this today is ~ people in my services Sunday will be “rating”
my teaching to see which they like better.
Anyway,
for those of you attending this Sunday’s 10:00 am Bible Study, I will be teaching
on Jesus’ 2nd temptation.
Read
Matthew 4:1-11.
For
background, read Psalm 91:11-12; Deuteronomy 6:16; Exodus 17:1-7
My
thought for you on this lesson is this:
To test
God is to doubt God ~ to doubt God is NOT to trust God ~ and NOT to trust God
completely is SIN.
I'm 99% sure my dad will comment that my choices are (a) lower the quality of my Sunday School lesson or (b) RAISE the quality of my sermon....
ReplyDelete:)
but that's just silly talk