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Why You Must Bleed in the Pulpit
The congregation knows on some level the world cut you this week.
The financial pressures of an economic system rushing towards economic challenges affect you just like everybody else.
The week has attacked your humanity.
Your spouse has misunderstood, and the struggles of a relationship directly hit you, just like everybody else.
You worry about that spot on the X-ray that you have an appointment next week to discuss it. Your mother is about to lose her house, and you don’t have the financial capability to do anything about it.
Yes….you bleed.
And yet, even though all of that is true, you sometimes either ignore the issue. And/Or you slap a coat of white paint over the rotten wood of pain and heartache.
Yes, you do….I know you do…..I have from time to time as well…
But did you know when you do that..you separate yourself from the people. And that destroys your hermeneutic of connection…
Hiding the pain doesn’t eliminate the pain….we ain’t gonna get into the psychology of what it does to you..and it does something to you…but im talking about hiding that from yourself changes your ability to even see things…
When you come to terms with your questions…then suddenly you look at Job differently…..you remember he said he cursed the day he died rather than just the triumphant aspects…
Yes you may preach about Goliath, but you don’t sidestep a man who ended up with Bathsheba of his own doing and now holding a dead child that was the result…
Go head and bleed My sister and brother preachers. Go head and bleed. It is in the bleeding that real hope springs forth….Don’t be afraid to bleed….
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