Why Johnny Can’t Preach: Most Americans Can’t Get a Good Sermon
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Mon, March 16, 2009
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Kevin DeYoung has a great book review here.
Has anyone read this? Any thoughts on Gordon’s perspective?
Todd
T. David Gordon has a new book out entitled "Why Johnny Can't Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers". Sounds like an interesting book. Here's a brief excerpt...
"Ministers [in our culture] are not at home with what is significant; ministers whose attention span is less than that of a four-year-old in the 1940s, who race around like the rest of us, constantly distracted by sounds and images of inconsequential trivialities, and out of touch with what is weighty. It is not surprising that their sermons, and the alleged worship that surrounds them, are often trifling, thoughtless, uninspiring, and mundane...The great seriousness of the reality of being human, the dreadful seriousness of the coming judgment of God, the sheer insignificance of the present in light of eternity–realities that once were the subtext of virtually every sermon–have now disappeared, and have been replaced by one triviality after another."
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Joseph on Mon, March 30, 2009
I agree with you dKopka; I am a pastor who headed back to cemetery, oops, I mean Seminary in the DFW area. I have had a chance to visit a lot of churches & the teaching & preaching is horrible, and there are about 7 or 8 Divinity schools in this area. There’s a lot of religion here though, & they have that down packed.
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