{"id":688,"date":"2010-10-18T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2010-10-18T10:38:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:38:58","slug":"seespeakheardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2010\/10\/18\/seespeakheardo\/","title":{"rendered":"#Seespeakheardo"},"content":{"rendered":"

When preaching hits home<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Those of you who have read Stale Bread<\/a> or the Preacher’s A to z<\/a> will have come across my ‘organic preaching cycle’, as pictured below.<\/p>\n

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Just recently, though, I have noticed another cycle at work too:<\/p>\n

See: <\/span>in the\u00a0quietness\u00a0of prayer and study God graciously helps me to see what this<\/em> passage is about in this <\/em>context for these <\/em>people.<\/p>\n

Speak:<\/span> the bit of the preacher’s job that everyone knows about, where she or he endeavours to convert the inspiration from the study into food for the\u00a0congregation.<\/p>\n

Hear:<\/span> the moment when I not only preach the sermon – but hear it too. As a preacher I am as much under the Word’s influence as anybody else.<\/p>\n

Do:<\/span> just this morning I have acted on last night’s sermon and written to an influential Christian in my life to thank them for their example and encouragement.<\/p>\n

The title of this post is written as a “hashtag” – something which generally helps people to find what they are looking for, and assembles together different insights on the same topic. I would love to assemble different views on how much and how well we listen to our own sermons. Is it something we avoid or something we embrace, I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When preaching hits home Those of you who have read Stale Bread or the Preacher’s A to z will have come across my ‘organic preaching cycle’, as pictured below. Just recently, though, I have noticed another cycle at work too: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}