Preaching To A TV Generation
The Sermon In The Electronic Age
Our sermon consumers are used to VCRs and Super Nintendo -- strong
visual images -- they watch and then rewind. For our preaching,
that certainly means it is a different generation of people out
there listening. It has definite implications for what we say and
how we say it.11
-- Jerry L. Schmalenberger
I talk with many laypeople about sermons, and the comment I
hear most often is: "Sermons are bo-o-o-oring!" This comment is
of course not new in church history. Perhaps Eutychus thought the