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traditional Bible preacher lookingfor a job

August 1 2003 at 1:05 PM
 

Hello
What a blessing to read your forum. I am an experienced Church of Christ Minister (graduate of Pepperdine University ) who - after a 15 year career as a preacher in The Church of Christ - is finishing up a christian based alcohol detox and rehabilitation program in Maine. I preached for a decade at a small congergation in the rural California until my short but hard fall from grace. I'm now back on track and looking to spread the Lord's word once again. I am open about my past transgressions because I hope to start from a place of total honesty. I have participated in evangelical efforts in Asia and the Middle east as well as organizing youth ministeries in the US. I do not feel that my short history of alcohol abuse and its accompanying shameful ( under the influence ) adultery with sisters in Christ should disqualify a life of fellowship ( I was raised in the church ) and service. I hope you will consider me for service with your traditional Church of Christ congergation.
In Christ
Bradley Workman

Sample Sermon Outline

Tragedy Nov. 21, 1999
God Is Trying To Tell Us Something

Proposition: To teach the things God is trying to tell us
in tragedy.

Objective: To inform the hearer of God's message to be
found in tragedy.

Introduction:
1. Many things about this world make it a place in which
tragedy can happen.
1) Human selfishness. Freedom of choice.
2) Natural law.
2. Far too much tragedy has been in the news lately for
comfort.
1) Lives have been cut short.
2) The lives of travelers.
3) The lives of school children.
4) The lives of some of the best and brightest our
state has to offer.
3. God expects us to learn from tragedy. He is trying to
tell us something.
1) There is a warning in tragedy.
2) There is motivation in tragedy.
3) There is remembrance in tragedy.

Discussion:

I. LIFE IS FRAGILE.

1. Life is likened to a vapor. James 4:14
2. All flesh is as grass. 1 Pet. 1:24
3. We have no idea what tomorrow may bring. Prov.
27:1
4. We cannot control the length of our days. Luke
12:19, 20

[With this firmly in our minds let us further note:]

II. OUR TIME FOR SERVICE TO GOD IS LIMITED.

1. Consider the Parable of the Talents. Matt.
25:14ff
2. All of us have been given talents and opportun-
ities.
3. The reckoning will come all too soon. v. 19
4. Have you dealt faithfully with what the Lord has
entrusted with you? Note the reward of the five
talent man. vv. 20, 21
5. Will you find yourself trying to make excuses
when he comes. 24-31
1) Have you taught that neighbor?
2) Have you uplifted that brother?
3) Have you supported that good brother in a far-
away land?
4) Have you relieved that widow or orphan?
5) Have you visited the sick and shut-in?
6) Do your children remain untaught?
7) Have you studied that Bible?
8) Did you attend that service?
9) Or will you simply have to say, "Well, I was
going to!"
10) What are you doing with your time instead?
6. When your time comes to an end there is no better
way to be found by God than in the course of
doing your duty.
7. Life is fragile. Be found doing your duty.

[Another thing God teaches us by the fragile nature of
this life is that...]

III. OUR TIME TO DEAL WITH SIN IS LIMITED.

1. We must deal with sin.
1) All have sinned. Rom. 3:23
2) Sin separates us from God. Isa. 59:2
3) There are terrible consequences for failing to
deal with sin. Rev. 20:11-15
4) A plan has been given for dealing with sin.
A. Matt. 28:18-20; Mark 16:16; Luke 24:46, 47
B. Acts 2:38; 3:19; 22:16
C. It must be acted on now!!!
2. The present time is stressed in scripture. 2 Cor.
6:2
3. It's too late after we die.
1) After death is the judgment. Heb. 9:27
2) There is a great gulf fixed. Luke 16:26
4. The saddest thing about a life cut short is that
there are no more opportunities to obey the gos-
pel.
5. I have heard of:
1) Children who were prevented by their parents
because they were too young. They never had
the chance again.
2) Those who said "next Sunday." It never came.
6. I wonder how many have said, "I'll repent tomor-
row." And the Lord says, "Thou fool, this day thy
life is required of thee."

[God is trying to tell us something in tragedy. His les-
sons of motivation and warning have been given. Yet, there
is another message. A message of great abiding comfort.
This message is that...]

IV. THERE IS A LIFE TO COME IN WHICH THERE IS NO TRAGEDY.
THERE IS VICTORY.

1. 1 Cor. 15:51-57
2. 1 Thess. 4:16-18
3. John 14:1-3
4. Rev. 21:1-7

Conclusion:

1. How we are affected by tragedy depends on us. Job 1:20,
21
2. Are we hearing the message of God in tragedy?
1) Do you realize that life is fragile?
2) Do you know that your time for doing God's will is
limited?
3) Do you know that your time for dealing with sin is
limited?
4) Have you been reminded of the life of victory to
come?


 
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Fellow Christian in Need of Grace

Sharing the Good News

October 10 2003, 3:15 PM 

My prayer is that you find the opportunity you seek. As I've also discovered, your 'fall' gives you genuine insight into God's grace. Many who have never fallen have no idea what that's about...because they've never had to reach up for God when there was NOTHING else to hang on to. And that is exactly where Satan wants Christians...happy and content, as things are, without ever sharing what Christ has done for them personally. Satan may not be able to take the Christian out, but he sure can keep a static Christian from working against him.

People fail to share Christ for one of two reasons: 1) they either don't really believe they're saved, or at least are unsure of their salvation because of their mistakes, and therefore have no 'Good News' to talk about; or 2) they don't believe they need salvation, because they've gotten everything right and have done everything God requires of them to make it to heaven, again having no 'Good News' to talk about. The first group thinks it's too good to be true and the second group thinks it's a right they've earned. There is no Good News to be shared in either situation.

So, as you have discovered the Good News, may God bless you to share it with as many lost souls as you possibly can.

 
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Not a good start.

June 5 2004, 5:23 PM 

The sample sermon posted here was written by me, G. E. Watkins, and is currently posted here (http://www.preachersfiles.com/sermon_outlines/watkins/fragile.htm). It's not a good start to talk of honesty and post the work of others as your own.

 
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Plaigarism

June 7 2004, 11:22 AM 

Dear brother:

Evidently you haven't learned your lesson too well. This sermon outline you have plaigarized from another brother in Christ. You need to repent of claiming that this sermon outline that you have posted is your own before you expect some church to hire you.

Here is the link to the original author of this outline: http://www.preachersfiles.com/sermon_outlines/watkins/fragile.htm

 
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Concerned reader

You are a thief!!

June 7 2004, 9:16 PM 

You stole this text and now try to pass it off as your own? For shame!

If any want to see the original sermon where he got this, then go to www.preachersfiles.com/sermon_outlines/watkins/fragile.htm and see for yourself.

 
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Marc Cooper

Is One of Your Legs Feeling a Little Longer?

July 10 2004, 10:29 PM 

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you guys can tell when someone is pulling your leg. Surely this was not a serious post, was it?

 
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JD

methinks they don't get it

July 12 2004, 8:07 PM 

I am with you Marc. I laughed when I read the original post. Some people are so caught up in being critical that they cannot laugh!

JD

 
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