Preaching
I hear that someone at Emmanuel keeps a list of students who are available to substitute-preach in area churches as needed. I think I’m going to seek out more information tomorrow and place my name on said list. Right now, we’re only doing services once a month with Summit, and they will continue to be in the evening when we increase our frequency of services, this could easily be done. It would serve as a benefit in several areas:
1.) I’m not going to have much of an opportunity to preach at Summit. That’s OK. It’s part of the deal. It’s not a reflection on my ability to preach, just the plain truth. Frank’s not even going to preach very often with this model. Odds are, however, that I’m not going to be involved with a North Point partner for the rest of my life. So, I need to get as much practice as possible behind the pulpit.
2.) It will help out area churches, and I’m all for helping others out.
3.) Some might actually pay me, and that’s always good. Every little bit helps.
4.) Networking, networking, networking! If I do start looking for a full-time ministry position, I could already have a network in place.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not dissatisfied with Summit at all. In fact, I’m very happy with what we’re doing, the direction we’re taking, and the momentum that’s building!
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Let us know when you preach and Joanie and I will come heckle you, per usual.
It’s nice to know that I’ll have some “groupies” whenever I preach.
OK – maybe groupies might be a little strong.
“Fan-base?”
“Stalker?”
Thanks for the support – even if you do heckle me!
I guess I should also say that I enjoy preaching more than I’d like to admit.
Don’t tell Dr. Roberts, though!
Yes, groupies does imply that we LIKE you, as opposed the fact that having you preach gives us an excuse to misbehave in church… not that we’d ever do that!
Fan-base makes it sound like we’ve started a web site. Which we haven’t… yet.
Yeah, you could keep a running total of the amount of times I screw up a word. Did I ever tell you about my first sermon I ever delivered where I accidentally said “fart” completely out of the blue? I know some people noticed it, because they commented about it later.
You could call the site Matt Todd’s a Big Goof or something like that…
So are you saying you’re going to be stalkers, then?