If you were to learn a new language, would you only do it if
you thought you might use it? Would you
need to be planning a trip to the foreign country whose language you had
chosen? That is how many people think. I
however can invest large amounts of time in learning a language when I have
very little chance of using it just for the joy of the experience. I have never had a passport or, therefore,
travelled abroad, but at different times I have dabbled in French (at school),
Italian, German, Spanish, Icelandic and recently in Russian. Language is fascinating. It worries me a little that I may be trying
to reverse Babel. After all God caused
mankind to have different languages then so that they would move apart and stop
hatching plans which were against God’s will. Now that the language barrier is
somewhat solved by the use of interpreters at global meetings, still the things
that men hatch are mostly detrimental and crises like that of the migrants
through Europe are not helped as they should be.
First of all thanks to Fat Prophet for your interest. I see from your blog you are having trouble commenting. To get back to my assessed service. Criticism albeit constructive is harder for some to take than others. I felt a little crushed after my assessed service but then remembered I had recorded it on my dictaphone. I listened to it all through and although my assessors were quite right about me speaking a little quickly and rushing from item to item, I was actually very pleased with the content of my sermon and how I presented it. So I have decided to take heart. I highly recommend other trainees to record your services. You can hear your good points and your bad and there is no argument about it, it is all caught on the recorder.
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