Taking some time off to repose and catch up on some projects for the ministry and the college ( FBC ). Need some reflective time as well, as the past few months at times has been a emotional roller coaster. Time in His presence, studying and pausing a bit sounds quite refreshing.
Reflection is one of a cluster of words such as contemplation, meditation, rumination, and cogitation. Here we use it as an umbrella word to describe this sequence, and to indicate the use of any of the methods described above. Preachers who do this are ‘reflective preachers’—to adapt Donald Schon’s widely used concept of the ‘reflective practitioner’.7 Unreflecting preachers have little to contribute to the church and the world. Indeed it could be argued that the quality of preaching is directly related to that of the preacher’s reflective praxis or, to put it another way, the capacity to preach effectively is closely related to the capacity for reflection. There are an infinite number of approaches to reflecting. Some of them are highly schematized; others are quite the opposite.
( About Sustaining Preachers and Preaching, George Lovell and Neil Richardson )
