On Sunday mornings I try to use an object lesson to make the sermon a little more memorable. This Father's Day I believe I succeeded.
I was preaching on 'Reverse Engineering' or raise your kids with the end in mind.
The object lesson was a pellet gun that had been busted but Eli and I had taken it apart fixed it and re-assembled the gun. The point was I couldn't assemble a gun from scratch. Yet, since I reverse engineered it I was able to be successful. Unfortunately, the gun was soon malfunctioning again. So, I thought I took a broken empty pellet rifle into the pulpit.
While talking I mindlessly pumped the gun and squeezed the trigger. To my surprise the gun fired the one pellet that was in it! The pellet almost took out the piano player, ricocheted off the wall missing the 150 year old stained glass window be a few feet and landed in the lap of one of the teenagers sitting up front.
The silence of the stunned congregations was broken with Eli, my 7 year old jumping to his feet with his hands in the air yelling, "Woo-hoo it works!"
This will be one of the never ending parade of Sunday's that won't soon be forgotten @ FBC.
1 comment:
Well, I wish I could have been there to see that. Why did you wait until we left to bring firearms into the church? :)
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