Nekked Preaching
I preached Sunday - opened up our series in Ephesians. (At some point, the download will be here. Row is having some computer problems and we are having a crazy busy week...and it might not get uploaded because of the rest of this story.)Anyway - I'm preaching in Acts 19 - yeah, to introduce Ephesians...just stay with me on this one...and I come to the part where people come forward and confess their sins and throw away about a million dollars worth of trinkets. How does that get fleshed out today?
I start mini-rambling about how most of the power of sin resides in its secrecy. The less secret we keep our sin, the less power it has on us and the more healing and restoration is available to us.
And here is when my brain went completely off. I guess I forgot I wasn't talking to a bunch of students. I guess I forgot that I had mixed company and younger kids in the room.
I say this...
"The two largest problems for guys is pornography and masturbation. Primarily because nobody wants to talk about it or deal with it. The secrecy keeps us in prison."
The brain went back on.
I think my wife wanted to crawl out the church. A couple of mouths hit the floor. The attention span cranked up to around 11. And I really wanted to ask how many Sunday lunches would now be ruined because their younger children were going to ask what the heck did that "M" word mean.
Oh, yeah. I said "what the heck" a couple of times in the sermon too. Which I don't feel bad about at all because, well, I say it all the time. But someone's older mom was in the audience and she grew up in a home where she got the worst whippin' in her life for saying derogatory phrases - like "what the heck." Me and my kids wouldn't survive 30 minutes in that house.
I hope they let me preach again. They kinda have to since we are without a teaching pastor right now, right?
posted by Grant @ Nekked Preaching on 5/31/2005 01:04:00 PM
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