effectively, the content must be scriptural. In helping the congregants wrestle with the realities of life as they are confronted with the challenges of the Bible, any reduction of sermon length that compromises the integrity of a message in order to accommodate the congregation’s desire for a fast-food, efficient religious service encourages consumerism and is not healthy. Some of those famous preaching machines of prior generations surely overdid it, right? You can remember the boring sermons, some of them