Church Leader Insights Blog with Nelson Searcy

Sunday Preparation

In about an hour I will deliver the 10am message at The Journey-Manhattan. The message is “The Art of Confrontation” and it’s part 2 in our Tongue Pierced series.

I tried something new this past week in preparing for this message. I came in early on Tuesday morning and the message was sorta burning in my head (you’ve been there, right?) so I went out into our conference area set-up my handy dandy portable recorder and delivered the sermon without a script - just let it flow out of my head. Afterwards, I had some of our staff listen to it and give me feedback. Surprisingly, they (almost) all liked it.

Encouraged by their feedback, I found a company online who would transcribe the MP3 in about 48 hours and send it back to me as a Word doc. I got it back on Thursday, we ran thru it again and I spent a couple of hours tweaking the message. It felt really good to have the message completed by Thursday night.

I wonder if it today’s message will be better than my last one? I hope so . . . that’s one of my goals as a communicator: to be better this week than I was last week.

Off to deliver the message. . .

Loving Sundays,

Nelson