I\u2019m not sure where the mistake was made – probably by me, perhaps by some well-meaning secretary, then again it could all be blamed on the computer. It doesn\u2019t really matter. The sermon outline that appeared in the bulletin yesterday had both of my main points listed as \u201cII.\u201d There was no point \u201cI\u201d only two point \u201cIIs\u201d. It was only frustrating because it was humorous. How can you preach a two-point sermon without point \u201cI\u201d? How can you proceed without a starting point? It reminded me of the cook book for newlyweds in which the first chapter is entitled, \u201cFace the Stove.\u201d You\u2019ve got to start at the starting point. Right? How silly for a football referee to announce on first down, \u201cSecond and ten!\u201d Or for someone to mis-state the well-worn phrase, \u201cSecond things first!\u201d Much worse for one to misquote Jesus in Matthew 20:16, \u201cThe last will be second, and the second last.\u201d Or to mistakenly identify our Lord in Revelation 1:11 as, \u201cthe Alpha and the Omega, the second and the last.\u201d So, what\u2019s the point? I went ahead with my sermon and preached both points and no one commented on the mistake. Maybe no one reads the bulletin. Maybe no one cares about the points. Now that\u2019s a scary point. What\u2019s your first point this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m not sure where the mistake was made – probably by me, perhaps by some well-meaning secretary, then again it could all be blamed on the computer. It doesn\u2019t really matter. The sermon outline that appeared in the bulletin yesterday had both of my main points listed as \u201cII.\u201d There was no point \u201cI\u201d only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}