The Feelings of One Who Listened to Graduating Preaching

　　It is a new custom that the Seminary has arranged for members of the graduating class to preach in the morning chapel hour. To this group of students who are about to step into the field of ministry, it can only be a good thing for them to try their hands at preaching in the Seminary. However, it is also a great challenge for them to stand before their teachers, fellow students and staff to preach. I am sure they must face a lot of inner struggle when faced with such a task! I want to applaud them for the courage of those students who dared to accept the daunting challenge of this preaching exercise!

　　I can describe my impression of these students who preached in the Seminary chapel by saying I was happy beyond expectation. It was not hard to see that, on the whole, the students had painstakingly “done their homework” for their sermons. They had read through the scriptural text, observed the spiritual needs of the congregation, thought through the whole process and prayed fervently to the Lord! What impressed me most was that, one after another, they all shared their personal testimonies.

　　Besides, after each of the sermons delivered by the graduating class, there was a long queue waiting to offer a hand-shake of appreciation, one after another hugging each speaker as an expression of blessings and support, adding to the warmth of the atmosphere of this important event of graduating students’ preaching.