For the past nine months I have been living, serving and worshipping in a Baptist Church in Vienna, Austria. As part of this I have been preaching on a semi-regular basis at both the main service and a second service we facilitate for a large immigrant group in Vienna. For the past nine months, I have been preaching and thinking about theology in a second language.
My time in Vienna is now drawing to a close and I am beginning to be in the position of thinking and reflecting about what I have seen, felt, experienced and learnt. Today marks my final two sermons in German at least for the time being and whilst preparing for it, I was drawn to reflect a little bit on the experience of preaching in a second language.
