Fill In The Blanks & "Conversations"

Why We Love Sermons That Aren't Sermons

“I want something to stick in my pocket and take home,” a church leaders said to me one Monday night during a “sermon discussion” meeting. He was pressing me to preach a specific kind of sermon, the kind which he could fill-in-the-blanks of and keep some sort of record of what was taught, presumably to implement those ideas. But probably not.

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