“This is what we speak, not in words
taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining
spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.”
(1 Corinthians 2:13 NIV)
Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers,
creator and host of television's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," once
gave an address describing the time he was a student at Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary and attended a different church each Sunday in order to hear a variety
of preachers.
One Sunday he was treated to "the
most poorly crafted sermon I had ever heard." But when he turned to the
friend who had accompanied him, he found her in tears.
"It was exactly what I needed to
hear," she told Rogers.
"That's when I realized," he
told the audience, "that the space between someone doing the best he or
she can and someone in need is holy ground. The Holy Spirit had transformed
that feeble sermon for her -- and as it turned out, for me too."
-- Victor Parachin in “Christian Reader”, Sept/Oct 1999
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