Don’t Questions Bring Us To Made Statements And Beliefs?
Now, If We Were To Ask The Right Questions, Wouldn’t We Come To Legit Statements And Beliefs?
But, How Are We Going To Find The Right Questions, If We Aren’t Even Gonna Ask?
For, Isn’t It Through A Question That A Person Comes To The Knowledge And Fear Of God?
So, Why Not Question?
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If you, by any chance, have any questions regarding the Bible or life, please feel free to ask. I may not know much, but I might know the answer to one of your questions. Try me. 🙂
Or, if you have a personal request for writing about a specific topic – I’d love to hear it.
Traveling In The Mind 
What do you think about preparing sermon series? Do you think it’s better to gather with youth leaders and discuss a series and go in depth of what the sermons will entail, or have the person preaching, pray and fast about the sermon so that he is lead by the Spirit when he delivers it?
My view is this: I know a group of people and a pastor who always prepare the sermon series for each week. They pray all together for 15 minutes and that’s it. Then, they deliver this message to the youth.
I believe that it is wrong in a sense. There’s a difference between knowing the Bible really well, and thinking you know what the youth needs to hear versus preaching a sermon that is lead by the Holy Spirit. I personally believe that praying and fasting is what is super important. I understand that the youth needs to hear certain things and it’s important to discuss them, but I feel like the approach these leaders are taking is wrong. I have met many pastors who are so in love with God and trust Him so much, that when they prepare a sermon, they don’t spend time “creating it,” but they spend time praying about it, asking for the Holy Spirit to guide them into what to deliver to a youth that is on fire for the Truth. Hearing when these type of pastors preach, I get goosebumps. You can just tell that they trust God so much and are only after the solid truth. When you are lead by the Spirit, you start preaching about deeper subjects and subjects that are lead by the Spirit.
What are your thoughts?
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That’s a very good question…
Sorry, but I might reply in long comments. Lol. There is a lot to grasp in this topic.
To tell you honestly, it could work both ways and it depends under what circumstance the situation is in.
I preach at our youth service quite often. And ever since I began preaching, my deepest desire was and is to be filled with the Holy Spirit when speaking His Word. It was something about the first time I felt God’s grace flow through every spoken word that drove me to search for more and more of His grace and anointing. So, I clearly understand where you’re coming from. If a preacher is not led by the Spirit, then he should end his sermon and sit down. I totally agree.
But, why I said that it works both ways, is because many times I came to our youth services unprepared not knowing that I will be asked to preach with only 15-20 minutes to prepare. And these sermons, to be honest, were filled with His anointing and grace. At that moment, I didn’t depend on something that I had or didn’t have. I depended on God and God Himself. Literally, I listened to the Spirit speak through me. And, of course, when I prepared a sermon in prayer and fasting, I have experienced blessed moments just as well.
So, yes. A sermon has to be prepared – if there is time to prepare for it. But, if there is no time, then even spontaneous messages can turn out to be blessed. But, spontaneous also needs to be based on a foundation. The Bible says: Out of the belly shall flow living waters.
Out of the belly comes out only that what once went in. We throw up what we once ate. Same thing in the spiritual world: Living waters come out of our belly, if once they went in our belly.
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Preparing a message should be more than 15 minutes (if you have the time). I’d say that the best messages are the messages that are lived through. These messages are truly spoken from the heart and spoken with understanding and boldness.
There are three different types of messages. There are messages spoken from the mind, heart, and mouth. Messages from the mind are messages that the speaker has learned and recieved knowledge about. Messages from the mouth, are messages that are spoken because they were heard of. Messages from the heart, are messages that were lived through. These messages are but life’s situations and experiences.
A message begins at the ears, travels into the mind, and then into the heart to be spoken with dignity and honor.
Hopefully this helps…
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Wow! So much wisdom! Haha thank you so much. Definitely helped 🙂
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Praise God! I’m glad it helped! 🙂
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How would you interpret Mathew 18:18? I looked at several different commentaries and I’m still confused about the bonding and loosing subjects.
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This verse actually goes hand-in-hand with the verses John 20:23 and Mathew 16:19.
John 20:23 talks about forgiving sin and keeping the sin on someone. The church, as a whole, is in the full right to forgive sins or to leave them on someone. And whatever they decide on doing will be accepted by heaven and heaven will take it in as a law. Done on earth – done in heaven. By sins I mean any transgressions or breaking of law.
Matthew 16:19 talks about having the keys to the kingdom of heaven. When someone had the keys then that means they have the right to open or close a door. In this sense it’s the door to the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is not heaven. The Bible says that the kingdom of heaven is within you. It’s also at hand. The kingdom of heaven is power given to us. If wet possess the keys to this power then we have the right to release the power or withhold it. It’s up to the church as a whole.
So binding or loosing really can mean forgive or keeping sins on someone. Or, releasing the power for any kind of purpose. Either to heal or raise up. Through this verse the writer is telling us how strong the church is as a whole. Whatever the church does (if it’s in Christ) shall be concidered a law in heaven.
Let me know if you understand my response. If not, I can put it in simpler words or paraphrase it. 🙂
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Thank you. It makes more sense now…I was looking at it from a different way.
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No problem. God bless you!
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*hand
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Hi Romeo 🙂
I just wanted to enlighten you that some of the things I post on my blog are actually journal entries that I wrote when I was going through that particular thing. For example, my latest post, “Annihilation” was actually written in 2013 when I was in the pit of the refiners fire. Thankfully, God has brought me out of that and I am a much better person for it 😉
I don’t note that on my blog though, when I do post journal entries, since a lot of people go through different struggles at all times in their life–and if I can shed some enlightenment or some light to people through my journal entries, then it will not have been in vain.
God bless,
L
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I understand. I do the same with most of my writings. I begin them while in the particular situation and end them once I’m out of it. That way you live through it before describing it. Not a problem. God bless you too!
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