On behalf of preachers everywhere, please click through and read the list. The first point on this list is easily the first on mine. But I would put #8 far higher.
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3 thoughts on “Thom Rainer: 8 Most Frequent Preaching Distractions”
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I always fear that I’ve offended someone if they get up and leave. Last night at the jail a couple guys got up and left, and they’re supposed to be a captive audience.
My preaching seems to have the effect of making people need to go to the bathroom. Generally, they come back into church, and I assume it is the bathroom they are visiting . . .
I always wonder at how focused a country church pastor that I know must be. There is always a lot of commotion and noise in his service, but it also seems to be full of people who enjoy being together. We have been to a church where the culture was to sit straight, look forward, and be silent and it feels very unwelcoming and it sometimes felt like people ran out the door. Don’t forget what a blessing your sermons a re to people who have lots of distraction themselves and when you create a culture of love and family people start feeling comfortable being who they really are. A pastor I know calls the other option ” Plastic Church”.