Welcome back to Havela's podcast.

I'm Havela and we are jumping into the art of preaching.

It's been a really cool series.

I hope you guys have caught it.

The first week we talked about what if I feel called to preach?

Like what do I do with that and how do I start?

Then we talked about preaching human.

Like do I have to divorce my personality to be, well,

promoted and productive as a preacher? And this week we're going to talk about what happens

when I bomb? What happens when it doesn't work? All that preparation, all that fear,

overcoming fear, getting up there, and it just doesn't work. Listen, every communicator, every single one of us

has had a sermon that has flocked. I mean, flocked. And that moment wasn't quiet. It was loud. It was

awkward. It was that moment that you know, everybody saw it. And if I was truly honest with you I have one of

these at least once a year like about once a year I get up to speak or communicate and it will just

not won't be what I wanted to be it doesn't it doesn't. It flops. And some of it's in my control,

others if it's not, sometimes it's a sound issue or a crying baby or, you know, maybe the slides

aren't on what I'm trying to communicate, whatever it might be. And so early on, I remember

so many times I would get up to do something and all of a sudden it wouldn't work. My mic wouldn't work or this thing didn't happen or I misquoted a scripture and I would shame spiral. I would go home and I would quit the ministry and quit preaching and like I'm never going to do this again. That was humiliating. But you know, you get back on the horse and you try it again and you're going to do it again.

And what I've found is it's just not uncommon. In fact, I was thinking about myself, gosh, it was like two years ago.

I was invited to speak at this really significant event. It was large, thousands of people.

And I was so excited. I mean, I had been prepping for this

event for months and not prepping like going through my content, but really wanting it to be

...