Monday
Jan192004
Argh
Monday, January 19, 2004 at 5:01PM
I'm reading a required text for my D.Min. that is driving me crazy. 275 pages still to go. Everything is preachy and alliterated. Trying my best to have a good attitude but not succeeding. May resolve to start alliterating in Sunday's sermon as an act of revenge. Argh...
Reader Comments (6)
Oh Lord - have mercy on you! No more degrees for me. Grace to you in your struggle man.
Perhaps your thesis could be on the effectiveness of preachy and alliterated texts and their impact on the missional church! :)
Aarg! I've been there! I'd rather read King James English than that type of writing. Maybe it's like listening to some sermons - you have to be patient and gracious enough to wade through the speaker's "stuff" and even then, only by God's grace will you find something to take home with you!
What's wrong with alliteration...I don't get the inside joke. Mnemonics can be helpful.
No inside joke. It can get hokey after a while. 350 pages is a little bit much.
I attended a whole day seminar with Stephen Olford, arguabley the king of aliteration. I've seen some preachers really streeeeeeeetch their points to fit a handy aliterated outline. I'm sticking more to one-point outlines these days.