Monday, October 05, 2015

Back in the Saddle!

So it's been four months since I retired, and I recently received an invitation to serve as fill-in preacher at a local church. I accepted with the idea that I would simply dust off an old sermon (after all, I have lots!) and re-preach it. Simple and painless.

But then, as I was worshiping at another church this past weekend, the pastor read a passage from 2 Kings and my mind took off. I don't remember much of what he said, because my mind was racing in other directions as I thought about the implications of that text for my "new" church later this month.

All of which is to say I spent today working through that text for myself and coming up with a new sermon for my fill-in opportunity. I guess I hadn't realized how much this wonderful process of listening to the text so I can explain it to my people has been burned into my bones! Second hand is just not good enough.

(On the other hand, I still have no regrets about my decision to retire! This is fun — literally — not work!)

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