I think I need to get lost more often when I preach.
Not “ummm, where was I?” lost, but lost in what’s happening in the text. I need to stay there, with the words on the page, and not leave them. I need to get lost in them, like in a great story that lets you read 100 pages before you realize five minutes has gone by.
Sometimes it happens easily, almost on accident. Other times I find that I’m trying really hard, which rarely works.
Of course I want to stay present with the people I’m preaching to. I don’t want to stop making sense.
I think I get frustrated when I realize that I can’t preach like someone who has 30 years of experience under their belt. I want to skip that 30 years and be a more wizened, genuine preacher now.
Two years ago I would not have posted about wanting to be a better preacher.
