The Book of Romans

It has been months that I have started to prepare my message for this Sunday in St. Stephen's Parish.  They asked me to preach in the book of Romans.  This is the book that I often shy away when it comes to discussion and preaching.  This is the most difficult book to comprehend since it involves too many heavy theological concepts.  It took me so many hours, I think even triple time compared to my previous preparation and still in awe of its message whether the congregation will understand with what I am about to preach this Sunday.  Worse, I have to preach this in English and in Chinese.


Anyway, I think God wants to broaden and deepen my theology as a pastor that is why He has placed me in this position where I would be preaching in St. Stephen's once a month until November.  I remembered Rev. William Dy who has been calling my attention some years back and early this year that I need to sharpen my theological aspect as a pastor since the rest of the attributes, I am already excelling.


I still praise God because I learned a lot after preparing this sermon from the book of Romans and I really believed, it has broaden my theology though still so much to learn.  Since I have been lazy to study systematic theology because it needs deep thinking and involves too much time, God has used another way to force me to learn theology.
 
Praise the Lord!