If you lose your life for my sake, then you will find it. Once again, foolishness. Then, the words of encouragement for preachers. God decided through the foolishness of our preaching to save those who believed. I have often remembered those words.
Ministers sometimes are full of themselves.
There are ministers who love to preach, who love to be up in front of the congregation and love to have people hanging on their every word. I would not say that I love preaching. I do preaching because I believe that s what I have been called to do. I try, in my preaching, to share with you where I am on my faith journey. To try to reflect with you on the Scripture passages and what they might mean for us as a church and as Christian people.