Pastor Steven Furtick » Blog Archive » Hermeneutical Trigonometry

That’s kind of how scheduling the filming/preaching of sermons for our 2 campuses feels right now.

I’ll explain.

In order to get our Union Campus on a one week delay (they will experience the sermons one week after they are preached at Central Campus), I’m having to preach one message tonight that Central Campus will never hear, and it will show tomorrow morning at Union.
My audience will be the staff and the video cameras.

Then tomorrow morning at Central Campus, I’ll preach a different sermon, and the folks at Union will watch that next week.
Make sense?

Didn’t think so.

It’s pretty hard keeping the two messages straight in my head.

It doesn’t help that I named one of the sermons Perhaps and the other one Perceive, and they’re both based out of Old Testament war stories.
I certainly didn’t do myself any favors there.

So I’m pretty confused right about now.

I know, I know.
All of you pastors with 40 campuses are thinking: “Shut up wuss, that’s what you signed up for when you went multi-site. You should see our spreadsheet of what sermon plays at what campus in what state on what week.”

And all of you old school pastors who used to have to prepare a Sunday morning sermon, a Sunday night sermon, a Tuesday afternoon Senior Adult sermon, a Wednesday night prayer meeting sermon, a Thursday morning prison ministry sermon, and a Sunday school lesson to boot are muttering: “Sonny, when I was your age, I used to have to preach walking uphill barefoot on an iced over alligator pit with Pharaoh and his army behind me… “

I’m just saying, this week I feel like I’m giving birth to twins.

Oh well, at least next week preparing one sermon will feel like simple arithmetic.

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