The first sermon I gave in public was before a congregation made up of patients from a psychiatric hospital and their attendants having a Sunday outing on a fine fall day. I hadn't yet been ordained, but was doing a semester of training at the hospital. Why the chaplain asked me to preach, I don't know.
Before the service he asked what I was preaching on, and I told him 1 Corinthians 13, St. Paul's wonderful testimony to love. "What part of it? the chaplain asked. "All of it