{"id":816614,"date":"2023-12-06T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/?p=816614"},"modified":"2024-05-27T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:40:10","slug":"what-pastors-actually-think-about-while-they-preach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/what-pastors-actually-think-about-while-they-preach\/","title":{"rendered":"What Pastors Actually Think About While They Preach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People often apologize to me for something that happened in a church service. I\u2019ve heard lots of great apologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry I fell asleep.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry I had to rush out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry my kid lit his hair on fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love church\u2014both the people of God and the worship services. I love the oddities that can happen during a church service. I\u2019ve had fire alarms go off during a Father\u2019s Day sermon (thanks to an intern who attempted to make scones in the kitchen). At the church I pastored in Indiana, the heating element went out for a baptism in January. The woman to be baptized insisted we go through with baptism despite the ice in the baptistery. She took the polar plunge and came up gasping a Holy Spirit language I\u2019d never heard before nor since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve ever spoken to a crowd, you probably know the feeling of looking out at everybody as a rush of thoughts consumes your mind. So, what exactly am I thinking while I preach? I\u2019ll share my thoughts, but if you preach regularly, share yours in the comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>First, I don\u2019t notice who is getting up.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I learned a long time ago not to get upset when someone leaves during a worship service. It could be a bathroom break. It could be that a person received an emergency text from a family member. Or it could be that you hate what I\u2019m preaching. At any point during a sermon, someone is moving around. Unless you\u2019re doing jumping jacks in a leotard, it\u2019s not likely to bother me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Second, I\u2019ve always got something on my mind, even when I\u2019m mid-sentence. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like the people listening, I\u2019m fighting a spiritual battle to stay focused. Have I ever thought about what I\u2019m going to do on Sunday afternoon while preaching? Yes. Have I ever had stray, random, and distracting thoughts compete for my mind during a sermon? Yes. Sometimes, I say a concise prayer, asking God to keep me on task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Third, I don\u2019t always see your face with the way our lights are situated.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So, it\u2019s not often that I notice someone sleeping. However, when your wife violently jabs you in the side with her elbow while you\u2019re snoring, and you jar awake quickly, I do notice it. And like everyone around you, I chuckle inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fourth, I probably heard your child crying, but it doesn\u2019t anger me.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In fact, I believe it\u2019s a beautiful sound. A church with no children is dead. The sound of a baby is as powerful as a choir anthem. It means the church is alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fifth, every week I think while I\u2019m preaching how much I love the people who are sitting and listening.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It\u2019s a privilege to preach. I don\u2019t take it lightly. I come prepared after much time in God\u2019s Word, prayer, and research. I know you prepare your heart to listen. I will admit to having nightmares of showing up to preach and no one being in the room. But that\u2019s never happened and never will. The fact that people care about God\u2019s Word keeps me going.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I\u2019ll gladly hear your apologies about taking a phone call, getting sick and needing to leave, or quickly sliding out of a pew to take a wailing child into the lobby. But there\u2019s no need to apologize. I\u2019m just glad you care about God\u2019s Word. However, if your kid does light his hair on fire during the Christmas Eve candlelight service, please tell me about it. I love hearing those stories. They make me smile.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People often apologize to me for something that happened in a church service. I\u2019ve heard lots of great apologies. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I fell asleep.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sorry I had to rush out.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sorry my kid lit his hair on fire.\u201d I love church\u2014both the people of God and the worship services. 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