That was a long sermon?

After church, I was eating dinner with my oldest child and she said, "Dad … that was sure a long sermon today"! "No it wasn't" I shot back, "it was all the preliminaries that came before the sermon, that’s want made it, seem so long.” Later that night, when I was preparing the sermon to be uploaded to our churches web sit, I noticed that my sermon totaled 44 minutes in length. Boy, I sure talked a lot yesterday.

Typically, I like to hit the finish line of my message around 30 minutes. Considering all that we do on a Sunday add in the uncomfortable seats, and that’s about all that normal people can endure. I also heard a very good communicator say once, “If you can’t strike oil in 30 minutes, stop boring”.

In a resent book I was reading by another pastor said that the goal of every message is to speak less. His primis was that many times the words / stories / illustrations sometimes lead people away from the main point of the day rather then adding substance to it. I can see were that happens, yes, even in my messages.

So, I guess yesterday was a good reminder for me to once again, I need to return to the work bench and do some more work on delivering the greatest message ever heard.

Have an Awesome Day

David