Preaching Practice

Just got back from our first afternoon of preaching practice. It was slightly scary when i found out i had to go first!!! So it was almost a little awkward to start, but good fun!

I must say i really struggled getting everything in the time limit! We only had 8 minutes! Which was so difficult! They told us when we had 1 minute left, at this point i had not yet got onto my main point!! Slight error! But something to learn from!! I got there in the end!

It was also scary when i walked in the room to find that Simon Ponsonby was also going to be sitting in as well as Charlie Cleverly! Which was a little scary!! But it turned out to be a really blessing, because at the end they both and Jo Braithwate (Charlies PA) Gave us feedback on our sermons which was really really helpful! So i feel like it was such a good experience learning from these wonderful people.

I even managed to get a little story in there about going to a Mcfly gig, and they even said they liked that which was nice! They said also that they thought i was a good communicator which was really encouraging because my worry is always that i will end up reading out my sermon or something! So luckily that didn’t happen and they said that was a good thing

It was a good laugh also, Charlie said he wanted the congregation to be like that of a Nigerian church, so at regular points Charlie would shout out, ‘Preach it’, or ‘Testify’! At times this was quite a distraction, but it was funny!!