More than one is better

Matt Lortie, a Tyndale student, is speaking at Richview this week. Yesterday, we met at Starbucks and went over his sermon. It was fun. We tossed around ideas, and things came pretty easily - a lot easier than normal, when I sat in my study alone and try to come up with everything myself. I'm learning this about myself and the process of sermon preparation. The old model of the pastor sitting in his study alone and producing a sermon is a bogus one. With Matt yesterday, and with my fellow students in Boston, I learned that it's a lot easier to clarify and sharpen what we're going to say after some interaction with others. It's also a lot more fun to do work at Starbucks, but that's a different story.

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[don]

Darryl ... we aren't doing this (yet ) with Sunday AM sermon prep ... but every Wednesday a team of participants for that week's Place Community ( Sun PM ) gathering get together ... bag lunch, talk through the passage, the key elements, the parts of the service, usually commission a piece of art work, stuff like that. They do it in community, with all of them giving input and challenging each other, and the end result is healthy. With 6-8 veiwpoints represented in the big idea planning of a service/sermon they rarely miss their weekly opportunity to speak into lives in their community.

[ed]

Here's to the power of team!!!! Don - sounds awesome!

[Char]

Very cool - any chance we could do something like this with small group? Maybe something to consider in development of small group leaders