My First Sermon… In Spanish

// September 26th, 2009 // Faith

I gave my first sermon this weekend. It was in Spanish… I’m not sure they understood my Spanish much less that anyone learned anything or was inspired. But something interesting happened. As I walked to the church it occurred to me, “Why am I not nervous?” I wasn’t scared. I hate public speaking. I get nervous. I talk really quickly and am short of breath. But yesterday… nothing. Calm, cool and collected (definitely not the words I would choose to describe myself) and speaking Spanish… or trying to anyway. I get nervous speaking for two minutes in English and I just spoke for 30 minutes in Spanish? Thank you Father. That was a God thing because on my own, I freak out public speaking. I can’t take credit for that one. Hmmm….

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7 Responses to “My First Sermon… In Spanish”

  1. Sarah Salter says:
    September 26, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Chris, I totally understand! I speak decent Spanish, but whenever I travel into Spanish speaking countries, I work with a translator. Well, this year when I arrived in Santo Domingo, due to a family emergency with our host, when we all got on the bus at the airport, I learned that I was the only "bilingual" person on the bus. HORRORS! For two days, I was the translator for the team. It was insane! And I promise you that it was the Holy Spirit because I did not know nearly as much Spanish as I was using. It reminded me that God is The Great Communicator– he can communicate through me or, if he needs to, in spite of me.

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    • chrissulli says:
      September 26, 2009 at 1:45 pm

      Amen. My spanish is okay by now, especially if I have time to write what I'm going to say first but the big thing for me was that I wasn't scared and that was all the Spirit.

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  2. FaithBarista Bonnie says:
    September 26, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    What an encouragement– to be speaking and know God is with you in it! Praise God! I guess he wants you to keep goin' Spanish on everyone! :)

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  3. stephenbateman says:
    September 26, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    awesome man, that's so freakin cool. Keep up the good work.

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  4. chrissulli says:
    September 26, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Thanks buddy

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  5. Annette Taylor says:
    September 26, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    Sounds like you weren’t nervous because you know you were doing something that God really wanted you to be doing. And from what you told me about your sermon I bet more people learned and were reached than you’re giving yourself credit for.

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