Recovering the Sermon Pt. 3: The Sermon As A Work of Art
This is the third installment of the blog series that I am doing--recapping a recent preaching workshop I facilitated, and adding a bit of content to what I shared then. Today, we're going to explore what it means when we say that the sermon is a " work of art ." To begin with, there is a loneliness to the act of creation--at least at the outset. I think all artists experience this. At least in the first stages of creation the idea, the dream, the imagery, the vision of what is to be created exists only in the mind of the artist. And more often than not, the ideas, dreams, etc. may not be all that fully formed. I think the loneliness we feel at this stage of creation is our own finite taste of what caused God to create to begin with--a desire for connection, to see see our creation live, breathe, move, appear. The desire to create is powerful, and so the loneliness we often feel in those early moments can be powerful as well. Which is how it should be...