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Most of us clergy were taught to preach 3 point sermons, it is standard practice and traditional, but go ahead and ask your spouse at dinner what the sermon was about.

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there is no such thing as a bad short sermon

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We tend to attribute short attention spans to the internet age with it’s easy access to all the information all the time. In real life we have always had short attention spans, it helps us avoid a lion sneaking up on us.

• one point is about the limit of what people can absorb in one sitting
• preaching isn’t about…
  • how smart you are…
  • entertaining the congregation
  • training the congregation to have longer attention spans
• preaching is about…
  • conveying essential truths about the faith
  • encouraging Christian ethics
• if the congregation
  • remembers one thing, it was a good sermon.
  • changes at all, it was a great sermon