It sounds silly, but it isn’t necessarily. The purpose of most devotional literature (and liturgy, for that matter) is not to teach us anything new, but to remind us what we should already know.
We could re-read the best books once a year, but in this day and age most of us are newness junkies. We tend to tune out things we’ve already heard or read. It is therefore necessary to repackage the same message over and over again, in different forms, to get it into our heads. If you need to find fifty different ways to say the same thing, some of them are bound to be silly.
Besides, in my experience as an adult instructor, being silly is a good way to get people to listen to you. If they are entertained, they aren’t as distracted. Then are more likely to get the message.
Very good. The scary part is that for a moment there, I almost thought they were serious.
Did you think they were serious when talking about fish symbols? I thought that could fly in some sermons.
I love some of the lines in this too. “Are you tired of praying to Jabez?” Ha, heh.
And what better fish to teach us than a fellow mammal?
Gold.
It sounds silly, but it isn’t necessarily. The purpose of most devotional literature (and liturgy, for that matter) is not to teach us anything new, but to remind us what we should already know.
We could re-read the best books once a year, but in this day and age most of us are newness junkies. We tend to tune out things we’ve already heard or read. It is therefore necessary to repackage the same message over and over again, in different forms, to get it into our heads. If you need to find fifty different ways to say the same thing, some of them are bound to be silly.
Besides, in my experience as an adult instructor, being silly is a good way to get people to listen to you. If they are entertained, they aren’t as distracted. Then are more likely to get the message.