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July 03, 2008

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Preaching: This might hurt a little... "A person emerged from our church a few Sundays ago, saying to me at the door as she left, 'I know you would not intentionally hurt anyone with what you say from the pulpit, but I was hurt by what you said today in your sermon.' And I thought, 'Where would you have gotten the notion that I would not want to hurt you? I'm a preacher. Some infliction of pain goes with the job!" -Will Willimon, Pastor One of the things I hated most about ministry in more the more traditional, baptistic churches I started out in was the social pressure to preach what certain factions wanted to hear. Better give an invitation this week- it's been two weeks and so-and-so gets grumpy if I don't do it regularly. Can't say much about this verse- so and so thinks this and that about tongues and that would just get them riled up. I think we in the emerging church might be tempted at times to think we left all that behind, but of course... that's a fantasy. You never leave that behind. Now, the issues are simply different- it's not the pressure to include invitations and speak about charismatic...

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