June 20, 1982

Comment: "Why don't you do sermons as stories?" my wife suggested. "You tell stories well and people seem to like them. Besides, you won't end up criticizing us as often!" My wife has a way about her. That was all I needed to try it out. Who wants to be preached at? I surely didn't! The first time I tried the following sermon in its current format, I served a church which had a lay person who had taken university level courses in Old Testament. How do you preach to someone with that kind of background, someone who has as good or better a background than yourself? You tell the story as story and try to let its implications preach themselves in the mind of the listeners. It's hard not to preach, though!

Genesis 1

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The e…