Oh stuff!

At the moment I am trying to write a booklet. I have been trying to write booklets for a long time. My aim is to write booklets that can easily be printed at home and handed out at church.

I do not see that I have a speaking ministry, I see that I want to create bible study in booklet form rather than spoken form. Then people can use them as reference material and pass them around.

I get that horrible feeling that I can't do it. Perhaps I am starting on too big a subject? I also get the negative thoughts about my writing. Is it too boring, not enough "funny anecdotes", stupid typos like missing out the "nots!" I was just reading a past post and noticed another missing "not" I keep doing it! I write "should" instead of "shouldn't", "do" instead of "don't", I wrote "We are built for heaven" instead of "We are not built for heaven." It doesn't make me feel like an effective communicator.

My drive is pretty low anyway, so to have things like this knock my confdence pretty bad. One thought is to really work on one booklet at a time. Do a full study, then carefully outline the main points, then spend time working on illustrations and annecdotes for each point. Then spend time proof reading and ask some friends to proof read as well, reading it out loud is a good idea as well. And especially reading it out loud to someone else.

I don't want them to be massive works, just simple little booklets outlining basic doctriones. I have been trying to work on a booklet about grace, but I never feel happy with it.

Like I say, it is a pretty big subject and contraversial in that it challenges our held understanding of what grace is.

Perhaps I should start on some more simple basic stuff to get going, and to get a readership.