A fellow pastor and I were musing today about the amount of activity that occurs during a typical sermon. All the ants didn’t get out of their pants during the sit-stand-sit-stand dance during the singing and prayer part of the service.
Perhaps you’ve heard the line, “people can only pay attention for about 20 minutes”. This obviously doesn’t hold true when a movie is on, but….
We decided that perhaps there ought to be “commercial breaks” between main points.
- “Now for this message from the Youth Pastor on the upcoming retreat” (jazzy music)
Sermon begins again. “Let’s pause for a moment for a message from Crossway books.”
- “Feeling beat up by the flesh? Struggling with a lack of desire to pray? Evangelize? John Piper’s new book……”
Whattaya think?
