Aaron wrote: "I am being really challenged by chapter 2. I think that I am a reasonably capable preacher but have been convicted by Robinson's statements, "Instead they leave with a basketful of fragments but no..."
Your post reminds me of one of the most memorable sentences in the whole book:
A sermon should be a bullet, not buckshot. Ideally each sermon is the explanation, interpretation, or application of a single, dominant idea supported by other ideas, all drawn from one passage or several passages of Scripture.” (p. 35).
I think this is one of the reasons most sermons fail (including far, far too many of my own!) I try to cram too much information until the sermon becomes a lecture instead of a message. Robinson has convinced me that if my congregation is going to remember what they hear preached, I must do the difficult work of zeroing in on one idea and hammering away at it until it is driven deep enough in their minds and hearts that they will not only remember it, but actually do something about it.
Your post reminds me of one of the most memorable sentences in the whole book:
A sermon should be a bullet, not buckshot. Ideally each sermon is the explanation, interpretation, or application of a single, dominant idea supported by other ideas, all drawn from one passage or several passages of Scripture.” (p. 35).
I think this is one of the reasons most sermons fail (including far, far too many of my own!) I try to cram too much information until the sermon becomes a lecture instead of a message. Robinson has convinced me that if my congregation is going to remember what they hear preached, I must do the difficult work of zeroing in on one idea and hammering away at it until it is driven deep enough in their minds and hearts that they will not only remember it, but actually do something about it.