Well, I gave my sermonette to the folks at the nursing home yesterday. I was as nervous as a “long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers”. I was only asked to talk for about ten minutes, I am not sure that I talked that long.
Those of the adults who were there with our youth from church seemed to like it. I didn’t make any really bad word choices. I talked about Faith using Hebrews 11:1 as my starting point.
I came straight home after the service was over and prayed for myself, I guess you’d say. It was a really neat feeling. I think that I can do this again. I think that I can do it better when I do it again.
I think that the one problem that I had, was trying too much to fit into the requested time slot. It seems as if most “preachers” struggle with that.
My talk wasn’t long enough for me to get used to being in front of the crowd (and there was quite a crowd there). I didn’t count them, but suppose that there was at least thirty or so.
Overall it was a definite positive experience. One I look forward to repeating a lot.
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I remember my first "sermon". I thought I had 30 mins. of notes. I had already gone over it in practice, so I felt like I had plenty to say. Well, I went through my notes, .... twice, in 10 mins. I realized that I didn't want to try it again and as a result, church was dismissed early that Sunday. Someone did tell me after church, "That's the way I like it - short and to the point." I don't recall ever hearing that again.
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