Someone asked me yesterday, "What is the biggest mistake you've ever made in a sermon?"
We had just planted Catalyst Christian Church and were in our third month when we decided to do a series on Love, Sex, and Marriage from the Song of Solomon. I was talking about the difference between marital sex and pre-marital sex, and I said the following:
"Sex is like fire. Now, you can spray lighter fluid on a bunch of logs and light it, and it looks like the real thing. But soon, it fizzles out. That's what pre-marital sex is like. However, marital sex is the real thing. To get a good campfire going, you need the red-hot coals going underneath. That kind of fire will keep burning hotter and hotter as long as you've got wood."
As soon as I said the word "wood," I heard a lady laugh. Then, another laughed, and pretty soon, everybody was laughing. I realized in that moment that it was probably time to just say a prayer and walk off stage.
Alas, we pastors are human too. Have a good laugh on me today.
And remember God loves you and has a great sense of humor. That's why He put me in charge of a church.
We had just planted Catalyst Christian Church and were in our third month when we decided to do a series on Love, Sex, and Marriage from the Song of Solomon. I was talking about the difference between marital sex and pre-marital sex, and I said the following:
"Sex is like fire. Now, you can spray lighter fluid on a bunch of logs and light it, and it looks like the real thing. But soon, it fizzles out. That's what pre-marital sex is like. However, marital sex is the real thing. To get a good campfire going, you need the red-hot coals going underneath. That kind of fire will keep burning hotter and hotter as long as you've got wood."
As soon as I said the word "wood," I heard a lady laugh. Then, another laughed, and pretty soon, everybody was laughing. I realized in that moment that it was probably time to just say a prayer and walk off stage.
Alas, we pastors are human too. Have a good laugh on me today.
And remember God loves you and has a great sense of humor. That's why He put me in charge of a church.
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