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November 28th, 2007 | by Scott |

Can preachers get the yips?

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  1. 9 Responses to “Sermons”

  2. By Jim MacKenzie on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    Define yips… since you are a non-golfer (which is where this term originates), I will try: You are setting up before a make-able four foot putt, the one you used to make automatically, and you miss it so badly you wonder if you can make the three footer coming back. Now every time you stand over that same putt you flinch and you can’t ever seem to make them again…

    Now for the preacher tie-in thought: sermon-crafting is different now than it used to be and you wonder if the stuff you are coming up with is relevant, challenging, Christ-centered enough… and this occurs every week…

    Close?

  3. By Scott on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    Close. I’m beginning a new sermon series this week. And I realize that because of the summer from hell I haven’t crafted a series of sermons in 6 months.

  4. By Shane on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    I would classify the preaching-yips as a disorder in which the preacher says things that 1) he/she hadn’t planned to say, 2) only serve to make the message of the sermon less clear, and 3) are either widely misunderstood or contain potentially embarrassing innuendos.

    And yes, in my first sermon ever I got the yips. I was preaching on Jonah and found myself discussing in painful detail what Jonah must have looking like after spending three days in the stomach acid of a fish. My friends (many of which were there unfortunately) refer to this as the vomit sermon, which ended with an invitation like, “If anything I have brought up this morning has hit you…” at which the congregation could no longer contain itself and began laughing at my expense. Yep, the yips are real and so too are its victims. I may wind up with the yips just thinking about them again.

  5. By Scott on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    Yikes!

    I guess I should be more clear. I mean can a preacher get the yips in sermon preparation? So far, the delivery is same as it ever was.

  6. By Tracy on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    Whatever that is, go get some penicillin and keep it to yerself.

  7. By Jim MacKenzie on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    It’ll all come back like riding a bike…

    only with a fresh, new perspective on life…

    How’s that? Praying for no yips…

  8. By Shane on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    You can’t get the yips in sermon prep. How do you choke before game time?

    Although it occurs to me, a little sermon prep might have prevented me from getting the yips in the first place.

    And Tracy, I think the yips are viral. Your penicillin is worthless.

  9. By Kayte on Nov 29, 2007 | Reply

    Only if they are Razorback fans…

  10. By Scott on Nov 29, 2007 | Reply

    Yikes, trash talk from an elder’s wife. :D

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