Story: A young seminary student was asked to write a paper on marriage. After working hard on it, he smartly entitled it "The 10 Commandments of Marriage." A few years later, after landing a job as a pastor, he was asked to lead a marriage retreat. He decided to rework his seminary paper and thought better to rename it as "The 10 principles of Marriage." Finally, after 20 years of marriage, he stumbled across his notes again, and realized the best title would have been "The 10 Questions About Marriage."
The older I get, the more I don't know. I'm no expert, and I'm loving it! I wish i could creat perfectly linear presentations of how to do this or that. I wish I could strut into conferences and show off my incredible street creed by showing how to go from A to Z with flair and flourish, but alas, I'll leave the glory to someone else.
There is something incredibly freeing about not being an expert. You don't have expectations to live up to. No fame to worry about. You can be anonymous. Just part of them masses. On the flip side, there's something incredibly fun about being a learner, a student, and trying and failing. In that sense, it's more fun to be a story teller than to be a teacher.
2 Cor. 12:9 And Jesus said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong."