Speaker stuff

Spent an couple of hours with a group of young Chinese Australians (or is that Australian Chinese?) this afternoon in preparation for a camp of theirs which I'm speaking at the weekend before Easter. They are a great bunch and I'm looking forward to doings some studies with them.

We're looking at the theme of 'getting real' which has alot of scope for some fun but also some challenges. Its nice to be able to speak on this topic as I've done so on a number of times now and really enjoy watching it evolve each time I do it.

Its interesting that on the Enneagram test (mentioned alot last week on this blog!!!) I came up as the 'individualist' which has the characteristic of Artistic/Creative. When I first heard this a couple of years ago when I first did the test I was a little confused as I'd never been good at artistic stuff. However I now realise that my outlet for my creativity is in my speaking/communication. To craft a sermon or a talk or a series of talks is one of my favorite things to do in the world! I love it - it energises me so much.

One of the worries I had in leaving DCCC to start Living Room was that the preaching element of what I do would dry up because we'd be doing more small group/discussion group type activities than your traditional Sunday service. However the engagements to speak around the state have started to arrive which will enable me to continue to explore this area - very exciting.

Sorry about my comments, unfortunately Haloscan seem to be doing work on their server....again....seems to be happening every day now. Will try to work something out.