We live in a time where people are losing their ability to pay attention. The average television show has angle changes every few seconds – or less. People just aren’t able to focus as long as they used to. But then again, maybe that’s all just a load of you know what. Maybe this isn’t the case at all. Maybe we’re just not preaching in a way that is holding people’s attention. Maybe it’s not that they don’t have attention to give, but they just aren’t interested in giving it to something that causes them to daydream about mowing the grass or worse – doing the dishes.
This is what I know: people pay attention to what engages them. And this is only one of the reasons why I believe shorter sermons aren’t always better. Instead of overreacting to the noise about people’s attention span, let’s begin asking 5 different questions to determine how long we should preach a sermon. Read More
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