Everyone is invited to preach at Seekers Church. Following are some guidelines to help you if you decide to preach:
- As you select the form of your preaching offering, consider the variety — teaching, prophecy, visioning, participative, non-verbal, etc. We encourage variety, and want you to use a form that empowers you. If you want to talk over an unconventional approach, call a member of Celebration Circle.
- Make an explicit connection to the Lectionary Scriptures for the week.
- Consider how your sermon can be related to the theme for the worship season.
- Consider how your offering is grounded in your personal theological understanding: use your own story as one part of our story as a Christian community.
- Consider how your offering can build the life of the Seekers. Encouragement, teaching and prophetic confrontation all have a place, but the goal is to engage with us as a community and help us be on our journey.
- Consider how you can invite us to an encounter with God, and a relationship with Christ.
- Consider naming God in expanded, emancipatory ways, envisioning the divine as inclusive, diverse, or beyond gender.
- Consider how you can invite each of us into a deeper connection with the Seekers’ Church.
- Consider how you can invite us to an outer journey in mission as well as an inner journey of spiritual growth.
- Consider how you can link us to our Christian tradition.
- Consider how you can shed light on the meaning of Christian Discipleship in terms of our heritage within the Church of the Saviour — servant leadership, committed membership, mission, call, gifts, etc.
- Leave room for the Holy Spirit
-Celebration Circle
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