http://solarcrash.com/2007/09/pardon-my-preaching/ Creativity, Faith, and Culture in the City Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://solarcrash.com/2007/09/pardon-my-preaching/comment-page-1/#comment-1950 Lon Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:20:44 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/2007/09/22/pardon-my-preaching/#comment-1950 Hey Dave, thanks so much for your thoughts! I think you're spot on. Hey Dave, thanks so much for your thoughts! I think you’re spot on.

]]> http://solarcrash.com/2007/09/pardon-my-preaching/comment-page-1/#comment-1945 Dave Tilma Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:51:14 +0000 http://solarcrash.com/2007/09/22/pardon-my-preaching/#comment-1945 You question about the effectiveness of preaching to change lives is warranted. Putting it simply, lectures do not change lives. Only when someone with the spiritual gift of teaching/preaching is presenting God's Word do lives get changed. Often different spiritual gifts/blessings can be administered through the 30-45 minute time slot. In smaller churches shepherding is often given. In larger churches it is often leadership which is being given out by the Spirit. Sometimes Mercy or Encouragement. The channel is questionable, but the work of the spirit through that "time slot" is not. Just my thoughts. (And I'm not even Charismatic!)dt You question about the effectiveness of preaching to change lives is warranted. Putting it simply, lectures do not change lives. Only when someone with the spiritual gift of teaching/preaching is presenting God’s Word do lives get changed. Often different spiritual gifts/blessings can be administered through the 30-45 minute time slot. In smaller churches shepherding is often given. In larger churches it is often leadership which is being given out by the Spirit. Sometimes Mercy or Encouragement. The channel is questionable, but the work of the spirit through that “time slot” is not. Just my thoughts. (And I’m not even Charismatic!)dt

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