I followed these tweets last night and found them very convicting. Listen to Darrin Patrick's statements of what we shouldn't be doing or saying:
1) "The soil is just really hard here"
2) "I'm just not a leader, I love preaching the Bible and counseling people"
3) "I don't preach the Bible. I preach only biblical principles for living"
4) "I don't work that hard on delivering my sermon, only on preparing my sermon"
5) "I constantly wait till Saturday night to put my sermon together"
6) "I don't pray or meditate on my sermon text, I simply study it."
7) "I always have great excuses as to why the church I serve as isn't reaching people"
8) "The sermon isn't that important anyway, we have great worship at our church"
9) "The sermon isn't that important, we have great community at this church"
10) "My job is to preach the sermon, it's the church's job to greet each other."
11) "It's the Holy Spirit's job to make all the practical applications from my rich, doctrine-heavy sermon"
12) "I spend more time on Saturday night on Twitter than I do pleading with God to use me and my feeble words on Sunday."
OUCH!!! :)
