Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

I have a sign above my desk and I look at it each week as I write my sermon.  It contains a quote from theologian, Soren Kierkegaard, about preaching and the proclamation of the Word.  He wrote, “People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage, and they are the critics, blaming or praising him (or her).   What they don’t know is that they are the actors on the stage; he [or she] (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.”  I really appreciate Kierkegaard’s words when he says the gathered people are the actors and the preacher is the prompter standing in the wings reminding the people of their lost lines, the lines they are called to remember as they experience the liturgy of worship and then go out and live that liturgy in their daily lives.  Today, we hear of this preacher, John the Baptist, standing in the wings of the wilderness on the banks of the Jordan river, crying out lost lines to the actors saying, “This is it!  Repent, for the kingd