Preacher's Block

This preaching tip was shared by Preacher’s Block co-founder, Hunter Bethea. If you’re interested in joining the most focused preachers in the world and getting these tips sent to your inbox every week, sign up here.

It’s coming towards the end of the week and you have your first or second draft of your sermon written. You run through your sermon for the first time. If there was a part of the sermon that you couldn’t even remember having said when you were running through it or you were bored when saying it, cut that section out. Even if you spent a lot of time researching for it. Even if it spent you a whole day to write. You need to let it go. If it’s absolutely necessary to be there, then that’s the section you need to rework. Maybe you need to shorten it, add a story, add some humor, but you absolutely must change that part of the sermon. If you—the preacher and writer of the sermon—found a section to be unmemorable or boring, 99% of your people are going to find it unmemorable and boring.