Post by Murray Lincoln on Dec 17, 2010 5:19:46 GMT -5
After 35 years of sermon preparation I don't have to do it anymore. Once in a while I receive invitations to fill in for some one, but the grind to produce a new sermon each week is no longer there. The burden is lighter in some ways.
However sitting and listening to someone else each week has been a stretch. The style of the "sermonizer" is very different from the way that my generation did it. The message has been good and most Sundays touches me deeply.
Sitting still on a pew and doing what the leader is telling me to do - is driving me insane. I think that is where the greatest adjustment is taking place now. My wife tells people that I moved around too much on the pew...
I do love the fact that I don't have to 'beg' for money anymore. Debt Reduction was always a part of what we had to do... in my last 10 years paying down the church's mortgage from $1,350,000 to the present $600,000 plus.
How have you dealt with no longer leading and now needing to sit still now?
However sitting and listening to someone else each week has been a stretch. The style of the "sermonizer" is very different from the way that my generation did it. The message has been good and most Sundays touches me deeply.
Sitting still on a pew and doing what the leader is telling me to do - is driving me insane. I think that is where the greatest adjustment is taking place now. My wife tells people that I moved around too much on the pew...
I do love the fact that I don't have to 'beg' for money anymore. Debt Reduction was always a part of what we had to do... in my last 10 years paying down the church's mortgage from $1,350,000 to the present $600,000 plus.
How have you dealt with no longer leading and now needing to sit still now?