The preacher’s task
I get asked sometimes if I enjoy preaching. I find it a hard question. I know I can’t not preach. And often, when actually preaching, I know that intoxicating experience of utter single-mindedness and control – ‘flow’ as they call it – which is dangerously exhilarating and addictive. Every worthwhile sermon I have ever preached, however, has hurt to write, as I have found that in the text that I wanted so much to avoid, and have been forced to face up to it. And Sangster’s old line, that every preacher sits down every time with disappointment and the hope that ‘next time I shall preach!’ rings true for me. These words probably reflect those two moments of pain more than the ecstatic moment of preaching that comes between.
Read
Revere
Relish
Reflect
Research
Receive
Realise
React
Recoil
Resist
Repress
Reject
Rebel
Retreat
Reassess
Repent
Reform
Return
Recall
Rephrase
Reclothe
Redact
Rehearse
Refresh
Rewrite
Reveal
Recount
Release
Rejoice
Reap
Regret
Rest
Regroup
Repeat.
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