A young man came to see me a few weeks ago and was asking why preachers contradicted each other and often themselves. I listened to a sermon he'd heard and was able to tell him that the preacher didn't understand most of the words he was using. He was simply repeating words he'd heard or had read.
I then explained what the words actually meant and he could see by the context in which they were used that the preacher was truly in the dark.
He then said something that was so simple and so obviously correct that it hit home at once...PARROT FASHION.
Why do people use words
they do not truly comprehend
that they have no experience of
and yet pretend to have wisdom
and authority over the word?
The glory and richness of a word
is found in the root or as a pearl
within a shell waiting to be found.
What did it mean when first used?
What did people understand
when they first heard it?
The Egg said, ''words mean what I want
them to mean and nothing more''.
That proud old Egg fell from a great height.
Take a very large pan of boiling water
and throw in the contents of a shopping bag.
Meat, fish, eggs, milk, jelly, fruit, butter, biscuits, cakes,
soups of various kinds and gently heat.
In doing this you will have prepared food
but nothing edible, nothing enjoyable
and nothing worthwhile.
So does the man who throws words
onto a page without the slightest comprehension.
He speaks, he writes and even debates, parrot fashion.
I then explained what the words actually meant and he could see by the context in which they were used that the preacher was truly in the dark.
He then said something that was so simple and so obviously correct that it hit home at once...PARROT FASHION.
Why do people use words
they do not truly comprehend
that they have no experience of
and yet pretend to have wisdom
and authority over the word?
The glory and richness of a word
is found in the root or as a pearl
within a shell waiting to be found.
What did it mean when first used?
What did people understand
when they first heard it?
The Egg said, ''words mean what I want
them to mean and nothing more''.
That proud old Egg fell from a great height.
Take a very large pan of boiling water
and throw in the contents of a shopping bag.
Meat, fish, eggs, milk, jelly, fruit, butter, biscuits, cakes,
soups of various kinds and gently heat.
In doing this you will have prepared food
but nothing edible, nothing enjoyable
and nothing worthwhile.
So does the man who throws words
onto a page without the slightest comprehension.
He speaks, he writes and even debates, parrot fashion.
