I'm currently doing some supply preaching for Baptist churches who are in ministerial vacancy. Today I was asked if I preferred to preach from the pulpit or from the lower platform using a music stand.
My normal choice would be to not preach from the pulpit, having come through the brethren movement i.e emphasis on equality of the brethren etc...
However having recently been challenged by the historic symbolism of the pulpit (the centrality of the Word of God') I found myself being convicted about choosing the pulpit! Crazed but true! I have done quite a bit of preaching over the years, most baptist churches do not have a 'pulpit', and this is the first time I have actually preached from the pulpit. Aside from anything else it was actually more practical, there was space for my notes, and my bible!
I was totally taken a back at the end of the meeting when an older lady shook my hand at the door as she was leaving and said "I was really pleased to see you use the pulpit, and I was really pleased you wore a tie, and I also liked some of the things which you said'. Lol!!!
I found that quite amusing... Oh man where have my house church loyalties gone to?!!!
My normal choice would be to not preach from the pulpit, having come through the brethren movement i.e emphasis on equality of the brethren etc...
However having recently been challenged by the historic symbolism of the pulpit (the centrality of the Word of God') I found myself being convicted about choosing the pulpit! Crazed but true! I have done quite a bit of preaching over the years, most baptist churches do not have a 'pulpit', and this is the first time I have actually preached from the pulpit. Aside from anything else it was actually more practical, there was space for my notes, and my bible!
I was totally taken a back at the end of the meeting when an older lady shook my hand at the door as she was leaving and said "I was really pleased to see you use the pulpit, and I was really pleased you wore a tie, and I also liked some of the things which you said'. Lol!!!
I found that quite amusing... Oh man where have my house church loyalties gone to?!!!
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