Monday Morning Scattershooting while wondering about my obsession with Stockholm Syndrome. At first I thought it was a bad thing but now I am starting to really like it. I worry about redundancy in my preaching. Redundancy is when you just keep doing the same things over and over. It's kind of like the lessons are in a feedback loop, they keep returning to the same subjects over and over. As a listener, I hated when a preacher would get up and a minute into the lesson I’m think this again? Now for a preacher to some degree, repetitiveness is your job. Your job is repetitiveness. You are doing your job by being repetitive. The truth of the Gospel need to be taught again and again [*] . But redundancy can take your symphonic ideas and turn them into background elevator muzak. So how do you avoid redundancy? Here are some things I have tried 1. Keep Good Records The computer age has been very helpful in ...
The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly.