Comments on: Judging the crisis http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/ Thoughts from Australian cartoonist and pastor, Matt Glover Wed, 23 May 2012 02:38:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: David Bell http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-15969 David Bell Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:33:16 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-15969 I gave my first sermon at Mitcham Baptist in 1974 when I was a member of Mitcham youth. It is remarkable how many young people from that era became Baptist Ministers. Phil and Harley Kitchen, Cathy Inches, Ken Luscombe and myself. My first sermon was typically passionate and uninformed but it had a remarkable postscript. A lady went home from church after hearing my sermon (my very first sermon) and wrote a song called "Song in my heart" which she dedicated to me. I think she returned the next week and sang it, but I am not sure. I still have the manuscript and the dedication. So you never can tell what effect a first sermon in the Mitcham Baptist Pulpit might have. That was all 30 years ago, and I am still preaching (in my local Anglican church), still full of enthusiasm for the good news, and still convinced that the church...even the tiny and boring ones are of the greatest power and importance in the world. I gave my first sermon at Mitcham Baptist in 1974 when I was a member of Mitcham youth. It is remarkable how many young people from that era became Baptist Ministers. Phil and Harley Kitchen, Cathy Inches, Ken Luscombe and myself.
My first sermon was typically passionate and uninformed but it had a remarkable postscript.
A lady went home from church after hearing my sermon (my very first sermon) and wrote a song called “Song in my heart” which she dedicated to me. I think she returned the next week and sang it, but I am not sure.
I still have the manuscript and the dedication.
So you never can tell what effect a first sermon in the Mitcham Baptist Pulpit might have.
That was all 30 years ago, and I am still preaching (in my local Anglican church), still full of enthusiasm for the good news, and still convinced that the church…even the tiny and boring ones are of the greatest power and importance in the world.

]]> By: Alison http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14993 Alison Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:35:10 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14993 And then we get the same message (twice!) at State Youth Games... God telling us something much? And then we get the same message (twice!) at State Youth Games… God telling us something much?

]]> By: Matt Glover http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14615 Matt Glover Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:26:52 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14615 Questions are good Gill! Ask away - you know how to reach me. Questions are good Gill!

Ask away - you know how to reach me.

]]> By: Gill http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14548 Gill Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:22:32 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14548 I really enjoyed Kylies sermon. like Matt, i too found it very powerful and i found some of the questions she asked very difficult and confronting. how would i react if i saw a prositute walk into church? what if she had been just my ages?? then what would i have done? What if she had turned up during Youth Group dinner? would people have willingly given her food? these are all questions i have been asking myself...Kylies sermon left me with alot of questions. We live in a very messed up world. Like Matt said, we all have our problems. sometimes, our problems seem so bad to us that we forget to watch out for the people around us. i had never thought i would be able to use my brokenness to minister to others. We do all travel through life together. It really doesnt matter who we are or what we've done, Matts right. we are all forgiven and we can all have a new start. I think we all need to stop judging. especially people like me. i become so obssesded with outside appearance. it becomes so obsessive we may even begin to harm ourselves to have the perfect body. we need to look at the inside of people. not their outside appearances. we all need to stop judging. i know i have blabbered on about some probably unrelated things here!! lol! but Kylies sermon did leave an impression on me and i have many questions... Awesome work Kylie!! I really enjoyed Kylies sermon. like Matt, i too found it very powerful and i found some of the questions she asked very difficult and confronting. how would i react if i saw a prositute walk into church? what if she had been just my ages?? then what would i have done? What if she had turned up during Youth Group dinner? would people have willingly given her food? these are all questions i have been asking myself…Kylies sermon left me with alot of questions.
We live in a very messed up world. Like Matt said, we all have our problems. sometimes, our problems seem so bad to us that we forget to watch out for the people around us. i had never thought i would be able to use my brokenness to minister to others. We do all travel through life together. It really doesnt matter who we are or what we’ve done, Matts right. we are all forgiven and we can all have a new start.
I think we all need to stop judging. especially people like me. i become so obssesded with outside appearance. it becomes so obsessive we may even begin to harm ourselves to have the perfect body. we need to look at the inside of people. not their outside appearances. we all need to stop judging.
i know i have blabbered on about some probably unrelated things here!! lol! but Kylies sermon did leave an impression on me and i have many questions…
Awesome work Kylie!!

]]> By: Nate P http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14541 Nate P Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:28:52 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2007/06/04/judging-the-crisis/#comment-14541 I wish i had been able to heat her whole message, it is soo good that God doesn't see the outside, or many of us would be in real trouble! It is always timely to remember that we are all so different and that which others can see on the outside is so often not what is going on on the inside. Good effort to bring such an important message in a busy week! I wish i had been able to heat her whole message, it is soo good that God doesn’t see the outside, or many of us would be in real trouble! It is always timely to remember that we are all so different and that which others can see on the outside is so often not what is going on on the inside. Good effort to bring such an important message in a busy week!

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