Pastors’ kids don’t usually like to hear themselves used as stories in their dad’s sermons. But often incidents in their lives are great to illustrate a given point. So what does a minister do? Would you ever talk about your kids if you were preaching?
I was with a city minister the other day who came up with a clever solution. Every time he uses one of his kids as a sermon illustration, good story or bad one, that child gets a dollar if that son or daughter was listening. Not a bad idea. The dollars ease whatever embarrassment there might have been. And, the system keeps the kids listening.
I take my hat off to this pastor. Wish I’d thought of the idea earlier, except my kids are older now, and they’d never settle for a dollar.
I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the 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 the church where you serve as pastor.
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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