doing “God, why?”
For the Sunday services in November, I used Dr Gordon Wong’s book titled, “God, Why”, an exposition on the Old Testament book of Habakkuk, and found it a useful aid to preaching and cell group discussions. We adopted his material for the Sunday messages of the main and youth services and used his helpful discussion guide for all the cell groups. I chose it because I have used his previous material on Daniel for teaching in a bible school in Myanmar and found them a great help for my message preparation. Furthermore, it deepened our exploration of this year’s theme which is “The joy of childlike faith”. The response I received was warm and positive though the younger lower secondaries found it difficult to relate to the issues. The outlines were smartly worded for easy memory, which though I found at times somewhat stretched, still had obvious advantages for the hearers, and saved me the ache of rewriting the discussion questions. I do not tell people about sources when I adapt, modify outlines from other preachers and writers till they become unrecognizably mine, but for this case, I used most of his materials with little modification, so I publicly acknowledged the source, which I believe is a good practice for pastors.
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