6 possible reasons why people don’t like preaching

Murray Campbell, the pastor of Mentone Baptist Church, has posted on his blog an interesting number of reasons why people may not like preaching today.

Read them, and see if this also affects your church, or ministry.

(in no particular order)1. we’re accustomed to the 30 minute sitcom that contains 7 and a half minutes of advertisements. Sitting for an extended time and engaging with a humourless monologue is hard work (against this, uni students sit through hour long lectures every day and everyone enjoys 2 hours at the cinema).2. We have talked up the singing time in Church to the point that we have relegated preaching to a secondary and uninspiring place.3. We’ve accepted the lie that theology is unimportant4. We are a culture of doers not thinkers.5. We have sat under years of boring and irrelevant preaching6. We have hard-hearts, not wanting to hear what God has to say