That's why there is no sermon outline available today. We're going to preach this message together. I was heavily influenced in my thinking this week by something I read written by Eugene Peterson, who also wrote The Message , which I'll also quote today. It is loving the one enough who speaks the words to want to get the words right. It is respecting the words enough to use every means we have to get the words right.
Lovers savor the words, relishing every nuance of what is said and written.
I'd like to read Psalm 100 for you again, this time out of Peterson's The Message . He has a way of helping us savor God's Word by capturing fresh insights just by the way he translates it. Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. He made us, we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.