Short entry, with the promise of a larger one to come. Last night was the first meeting of the Winter Quarter of VLI-AD here in St Louis. In addition it was also the first of the preaching/teaching mentoring classes. Wow. A long night - 5:30pm to 9:30pm - of intense stuff. We’ll be studying the writings of the Apostle Paul over the next ten weeks with weekend intensives on church planting and church growth. I have to say overall I am a healthy mixture of nervous and excited. Robert Stovall, the pastor of Fenton Vineyard, is teaching the mentoring and has invited a half-dozen folks from the 3 Vineyard Churches to attend also. This means that over the next few weeks we will all preach 4 times. That is what I am excited about. It’s the pinnacle of the 3 mentoring classes. Its the thing I was most looking forward to learning. What’s even better is that I’ll get to combine the Internet and preaching; Robert doesnt require us to write out and submit the entire text of our sermon but he did strongly suggest that we manuscript the whole thing to give a better sense of structure, pace and delivery. What better place to manuscript than here in the blog? This has been my “pulpit” for a long while now!
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