SMYRNA: GRACE UNDER PRESSURE (2 OF 7)
Scripture: Revelation 2:8-11
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Title: Smyrna: Grace Under Pressure”(2 of 7)
Series: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Text: Revelation 2:8-11
Author: James Merritt
Introduction
1. Anybody Under Any Pressure Here at All? It
Didn’t Take Me Long to Figure Out When I Became
The Pastor of My First Church How Much
Pressure a Pastor Is Under on a Daily Basis. For
Example, We Pastors Have a Saying, “Sunday’s
Coming.” in Other Words, We Don’t Get To Come To
Church Just to Sit and Listen and Leave. One Of
The Main Reasons People Come to Church Is To
Hear What We Believe God Wants to Say to Them.
So Go Back to Your High School Days or Your
College Days and Just Imagine That Every Single
Week You Have to Prepare a Term Paper and You
Are Sitting in a Room Full of Professors Who Are
Grading You From the Moment You Get Up Until The
Moment You Sit Down. Your Greatest Nightmare Is
Seeing People Begin to Nod Off and Go to Sleep.
2. One Man Said This About His Pastor,
I Haven’t Seen My Pastor’s Eyes
In Such a Long, Long Time.
When Prays He Closes His Eyes
When He Preaches He Closes Mine.
I Heard a Preacher Say One Time That Your People
Will Forgive You for Just About Anything Except
Boring Them on Sunday Morning. You Will Also
Learn No Matter How Well You Do on One Sunday
You Better Be Bringing It Again the Next Sunday.
The Pressure Is Relentless and It Never Lets Up.
3. Then There Are All Kinds of Pressures You
Don’t See. There Is the Pressure of Making Sure
You Can Raise the Money to Pay the Bills. There Is
The Pressure of Trying to Grow the Church
(Especially Today) In a Post-covid World. There Is
Returning Phone Calls, Emails, Counseling, Giving
Advice, Trouble-Shooting, Managing Conflict,
Setting a Vision, Leading the Church. I Am Not
Complaining; I Just Understand Pressure.
4. Anybody Here Feeling Any Pressure? The
Financial Pressure of Trying to Make Ends Meet?
The Marital Pressure of Trying to H ...
Series: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Text: Revelation 2:8-11
Author: James Merritt
Introduction
1. Anybody Under Any Pressure Here at All? It
Didn’t Take Me Long to Figure Out When I Became
The Pastor of My First Church How Much
Pressure a Pastor Is Under on a Daily Basis. For
Example, We Pastors Have a Saying, “Sunday’s
Coming.” in Other Words, We Don’t Get To Come To
Church Just to Sit and Listen and Leave. One Of
The Main Reasons People Come to Church Is To
Hear What We Believe God Wants to Say to Them.
So Go Back to Your High School Days or Your
College Days and Just Imagine That Every Single
Week You Have to Prepare a Term Paper and You
Are Sitting in a Room Full of Professors Who Are
Grading You From the Moment You Get Up Until The
Moment You Sit Down. Your Greatest Nightmare Is
Seeing People Begin to Nod Off and Go to Sleep.
2. One Man Said This About His Pastor,
I Haven’t Seen My Pastor’s Eyes
In Such a Long, Long Time.
When Prays He Closes His Eyes
When He Preaches He Closes Mine.
I Heard a Preacher Say One Time That Your People
Will Forgive You for Just About Anything Except
Boring Them on Sunday Morning. You Will Also
Learn No Matter How Well You Do on One Sunday
You Better Be Bringing It Again the Next Sunday.
The Pressure Is Relentless and It Never Lets Up.
3. Then There Are All Kinds of Pressures You
Don’t See. There Is the Pressure of Making Sure
You Can Raise the Money to Pay the Bills. There Is
The Pressure of Trying to Grow the Church
(Especially Today) In a Post-covid World. There Is
Returning Phone Calls, Emails, Counseling, Giving
Advice, Trouble-Shooting, Managing Conflict,
Setting a Vision, Leading the Church. I Am Not
Complaining; I Just Understand Pressure.
4. Anybody Here Feeling Any Pressure? The
Financial Pressure of Trying to Make Ends Meet?
The Marital Pressure of Trying to H ...
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