I found this story from one of the news articles about the move of God at Asbury encouraging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt all started on Wednesday, February 8, when Zach Meerkreebs, a volunteer soccer coach who had addressed the student body only twice before, gave an improvised sermon about love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome of you guys have experienced radically poor love,\u201d Meerkreebs, a tattooed 32-year-old with a penchant for kombucha, told <\/a>the crowd. \u201cSome of you guys have experienced that love in the church. Maybe it\u2019s not violent, maybe it\u2019s not molestation, it\u2019s not taken advantage of\u2014but it feels like someone has pulled a fast one on you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then he uttered the invitation that ignited a movement: \u201cIf you need to hear the voice of God\u2014the Father in Heaven who will never love you that way, that is perfect in love, gentle and kind\u2014you come up here and experience his love. Don\u2019t waste this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a final, kind of corny throwaway line, he said: \u201cI pray that this sits on you guys like an itchy sweater, and you gotta itch, you gotta take care of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meerkreebs told me he was certain that he had \u201ctotally whiffed\u201d the sermon, and immediately got off stage and texted his wife, \u201cLatest stinker. I\u2019ll be home soon.\u201d<\/p>\nWhy Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours<\/a> (The Free Press)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know whether his preaching was actually bad that day or not \u2014 I haven\u2019t seen the video. But I know he thought it went badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And here\u2019s the encouraging thing for preachers: the move of God is not contingent on our rhetorical skills. Do your best to bless God\u2019s people, but don\u2019t despair if you \u201ctotally whiff\u201d and lay your \u201clatest stinker.\u201d An amazing outpouring might follow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? Because grace is as fundamental a principle as you can find in Christianity. It is well-known that God offers forgiveness to sinners, freedom for captives, and joy in place of mourning. Moreover, His power is made perfect in our weakness! Why should we be surprised when God pours out His Spirit generously in response to mediocre preaching?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I found this story from one of the news articles about the move of God at Asbury encouraging: It all started on Wednesday, February 8, when Zach Meerkreebs, a volunteer soccer coach who had addressed the student body only twice before, gave an improvised sermon about love. \u201cSome of you guys have experienced radically poor love,\u201d \u2026 Continue reading \u201cGrace For Bad Preaching\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-nuggets","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1R9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7141,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}