This past Sunday, Paul had the honor of preaching in service. His topic was Sexual Immorality.
Now if we had still been in a church environment that was more edgy this topic would not present a problem at all. People would be used to hearing about it and the words (i.e. pornography, lust, masturbation) would not, most likely, turn their faces every color of the rainbow. Yet, that is not where we are anymore. We are in a more contemporary but traditional environment. Good people but very different for us. Thus, this topic presented some dilemmas for Paul.
First, how much does he share about himself, second, how detailed does he get on sexual immorality. Third, make sure to say during announcements that this is a PG-13 message and parents who have not spoken with their children about this topic should use the children's ministry for the day!
I love the way Paul preaches/teaches. If you do not know, Paul holds an undergrad degree in Elementary Education, thus he is well equipped to teach. When Paul gives the sermon, he takes a lot of time to delve into the back ground of the passage so that the congregation fully understands the context of the Scripture, who is writing it and why. I find this to be so refreshing because he really takes time to explain God's Word which can often times be so hard to understand. But I find that people fully enjoy this about his sermons. He challenges our minds to think and our hearts to apply the Word of God to our lives.
This sermon on sexual immorality was so good. He met it head on with such grace and eloquence. He made a beautiful balance of confronting sexual sin such as pornography, lust and sex outside of marriage but he did it a way that spoke the truth in love and didn't make anyone squeamish. In a traditional environment this is a hard thing to do. I was so proud of him while he was up there preaching!!!!
Here is the link if you would like to listen:
http://www.faithrefuge.org/media.php?pageID=73
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