Our senior pastor flew to Tuscon Monday to attend to his dying father (passed away this morning) and I am scheduled to fill the pulpit Sunday. No, we don't have a actual pulpit--a conductor's stand suffices, which I prefer, since I tend to wander from home base anyway. The pastor's absence was planned: he was supposed to speak in a church in Quebec City (via interpreter).
But I will continue in a series we started a month ago, based on C. Gene Wilkes' study on Servant Leadership. Last week, we finished the acronym
SERVE:
- Spiritual gifts
- Experiences
- Relational style
- Vocational skills
- Enthusiasm
I plan to cover the simple acronym
EQUIP( for service):
- Encourage
- Qualif
- Understand & meet needs
- Instruct
- Pray
To introduce the topic, I will screen a clip from
Stars Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, in which Master Yoda confers upon Qbi-Wan the title of Master Jedi, and passes Anakin Skywalker into Obi-Wan's care to be trained as a Jedi knight.
The point is that we are all supposed to pass on to others what we have learned.
I'm excited about this opportunity.