pat loughery

I’m finding myself in a dangerous rut lately when it comes to sermon preparation. That rut is this: I’m getting better at communicating what I’d like to communicate, and as a result I’m getting confortable.

That may not sound bad to you, but it scares me. I have this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I could just “mail it in” and get a reasonably decent sermon across. I don’t want that to happen.

I’m also finding that as I get better at sermon prep, it’s easier to minimize the group-talk that I think should be a highlight of the story time – because generating good questions that make people think is difficult to do.

My three goals for this time, as I consider this problem, would lay out something like this: