In the course of helping our congregations continue on a forward pathway toward ever-improving spiritual formation, we pastors need to craft our worship services and sermons with certain elements in mind. Those elements will open up the opportunity for our congregants to have an occasional “Aha moment” that will open up new possibilities for encouragement in spiritual growth.
Looking back over nearly 60 years of ministry, I can see in my own life those times when something happened in a worship service that turned on a spotlight inside my mind and heart. At those times, I felt drawn closer to the Lord and greatly encouraged to follow Him with deeper devotion. I’m not talking about a purely emotional experience. Certainly emotions may well have been involved, but I’m focusing much more on a deep connection with the supernatural Presence of the Holy Spirit who ministered to me in a very special way.
I want to encourage my fellow pastors to consider whether they are making an effort to inspire such “Aha moments” in the worship services and sermons for which they are responsible. That’s why I’ve made this particular topic the focus of Podcast No. 218. If you would like to take a few moments to explore with me the possibility of opening up your worship services and sermons as vehicles for “Aha moments,” then I ask you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website. Once your browser takes you to that site, please click the link to listen to this Podcast.
As pastors, we are instruments of God’s grace to our congregations. He has called us to minister in His behalf to those He has placed under our shepherding care. I am convinced that you join me in wanting to become as skilled as possible in using the gifts God has given us to serve Christ and His Kingdom in the most effective possible way.
I continue to receive many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.
This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in your church.
Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.
You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.
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