so today: a quote from Paul Keating (Australian Prime-minister 1991-6) – ‘[your performance] is like being flogged with a wet lettuce’, ‘you’re like a shiver waiting for a spine’, and so on .
the sermon then continues (starts) the pharisees and saduccees need to trap Jesus like an aspiring Paul Keating.
huh?
i like it, it’s fun, it seems to be relevant to the passage – but what it says is THE BIBLE IS BORING – so here’s a really interesting story. so when you think pharisees and saduccees, think Paul Keating, and then you’ll find it really interesting.
how do we do introductions that aren’t just trying to ‘make the bible more interesting’? or is that the point of an introduction?
another one – the gripping story of Australia’s America’s Cup win (in 1983), an unlikely victory. But with that really interesting story in your mind, here’s the not quite so interesting story of the Israelites being saved from certain death, with Pharaoh’s army on one side, the Reed sea on the other.i don’t want to be a party-pooper, but, neither do I want my introductions to make the Bible boring by implication.
whaddya reckon?
