Preach Magazine Issue 1 - Creativity and innovation in preaching | Page 40

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FEATURE

FOUR STREAMS OF
REFRESHMENT

THE OFFICE
Of course, you wouldn’t – but for 84, Betty’s short term
memory was pretty keen. And she’s persistent. Monday
morning, you obligatorily open your notes – ‘Just get it
over with’, you tell yourself. You review.
Last week: ‘Accept Jesus, know Jesus, reveal Jesus’. Well,
that was a fluke. You flip to a few weeks previous: ‘The
value of personal Bible reading’. Okay, not exactly the
same. You look through your illustrations – okay,
maybe you’ve repeated a few over the summer.
They’re great illustrations, aren’t they? So what if
they’ve been heard a hundred times?
As you set your notes down, you have a sinking feeling
in your stomach