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Originally Posted by BaptistInCrisis  There isn't a single time that I take the pulpit without fear and trembling. I honestly say to myself, "Who am I to proclaim God's word?" I have butterflies each time I preach. But after a few minutes they usually start flying in formation. |
My problem was, in this case, a difficulty in presenting so much information in a short time. It's not always easy to "package".
I'm actually doing quite a bit of teaching right now - teaching through a Book of the Bible each week during Sunday School and then every other week I'm teaching on a Chapter of Romans. I obviously will never teach at the caliber of a scholar but I am reading some really good Commentaries to help me.
I taught on Job this past Sunday so it's always a challenge figuring out how you can condense something so theologically rich into less than an hour. Add to that, I was trying to prepare to teach Romans 2.
What ended up happening in some portions of my teaching on Saturday was that I would read the portion of Scripture and then struggle to remember the salient issues that I wanted to draw out and so I was "reaching" for them. The previous week, in Romans 1, was much easier to condense and express.
I think my greatest "fear" when I teach is taking a large amount of theological material and condensing it to fit a time period without compromising the quality of instruction. I think, like you Bill, I'm fearful of misrepresenting God's Truth and leaving out a piece of information He would have me instruct or distorting information by condensing it.