If Malcom Gladwell is right and it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, then I’ve got a seriously long road of sermonizing ahead of me. I like to write and reflect on the practice of preaching, but by no means have I figured out this craft. If anything, I can only say that I work hard at it, come what may in the end product.
But one truth I’ve learned — and learned the hard way, at that — about preaching, it’s that the secret to a good sermon is something many pastors never understand or appreciate. Let me illustrate it first, before I expound.
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