Preaching Killer Sermons Quotes

“You reach a point of diminishing returns where your audience has checked out and you are talking to an audience of one—yourself. What I am suggesting is to have the discipline to communicate your message and let it be. Then let the Holy Spirit do his work in the lives of your listeners.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire

“What makes a sermon a sermon is that it gets people to see a better way. A good sermon makes people unsatisfied with the status quo. It makes them want to change their thinking, change their hearts, change their lives.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire

“The best preachers, like the best filmmakers, make preaching look easy. The reason it looks easy when they are delivering the sermon is because of all the hard work that went into it behind the scenes.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire

“When you are in a conversation with someone, be totally in the conversation. Make the other person feel as though he or she is the most important person in the world in that moment.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire

“Intentionally pause long enough for someone else to interject. I make a point of just shutting up long enough to invite interaction. I do this to treat my affliction of talking too much.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire

“Then you come in. If you are boring, it is such an insult. I know this is hard to stomach, but it’s true. As the one preaching, you owe it to your people to give them a reason to listen to you. Paul had this attitude in 1 Corinthians 9:22-23: “... I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.” He was concerned about relating to every kind of person. Paul knew that God was in control, but he also knew that he had a responsibility to do everything possible to engage people where they were.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire

“You should be willing to work hard to earn and keep the attention of those who want to listen. By showing up, they have given you the right to speak into their lives. You don’t want to waste their time.”
― Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons: How to Create and Deliver Messages that Captivate and Inspire