I currently enjoy the great privilege of serving as a deacon in our local assembly with two other brothers in Christ. 

As deacons, we’ve had the opportunity of 10-15 minutes to teach on the subject of service during the Scripture reading portion of worship over the last 4 Sundays as well as the 15 or so minutes of family teaching time (which is a time each Sunday especially geared for the younger kids and their families).

I’ll be posting the messages that I prepared for the Scripture reading and a short summary of the family teaching that I also had the chance to present.

I’m terribly thankful and praise God immensely that the teaching series was very well received and seemed to really spiritually minister to everyone. He truly led us in this endeavor and I’m very excited to have been a part of it.

I’m very new to teaching from the pulpit and have found that it’s simply too easy for me to get caught up in the moment and easily lose sight of what I’m actually trying to teach, forgetting the very points that I’d studied all week long and drifting into unnecessary tangents. Because of this I prefer to restrain myself during preparation by writing out everything that I want to say in pretty fair detail.

Even so, I still find it necessary to deviate a little bit from my notes during teaching, so while what I’m posting here may not reflect everything that I actually had presented, it does reflect it very closely.

Enjoy…