Preaching usually represents one-way communication. When pastors are taught how to preach but do not learn other forms of communication, they are severely handicapped. When they express stress and tension in the congregation, they revert to the form of communication they know best, and that is preaching. Not listening, mind you, but preaching. We [as pastors] have learned well how to speak our opinions, but we have not learned how to hear or respond equally well to the opinions and positions of others. Often, once we stake out a position within a conflict scenario, we are immovable.

H.B. London

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Tall & Cool

#1 · January 9, 2002, 9:38 pm

Posted by: root <root@...>

The businessman dragged himself home and barely made
it to his chair before he dropped, exhausted.

His concerned wife was right there with a tall Ice Tea
and a consoling word.

"My, you look tired," she said. "You must have had a
hard day today. What happened to make you so
exhausted?"

"It was terrible," her husband said, "The computer
broke down and all of us had to do our own thinking."