Sharing is Caring

  Jonah’s God (7)     [Jonah 3:5-10]     Long time ago, when my kids were little, I was little bit shock by what one of my kids said to her sibling.  At that time I was watching a Korean drama and a guy was making a loud voice in his speech.  And my kids were playing toys together and one of the kids who heard his speech told her sibling that ‘Daddy makes loud too.’  When her sibling heard her saying it, he said to me, ‘Daddy, she said your preaching is loud.’  When I heard him saying that, I was surprised.  I thought that these two kids were thinking of my sermon as if it was “a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal” (1 Cor. 13:1).  So I thought I should repent.  Especially on that day afternoon, I learned from my mentor pastor that 'Preaching is the power of influencing' (the power of sermons and the work of the Holy Spirit), but my sermon has lost its meaning to my children because my sermon...