A fellow attended a special evening service at the church but sat near the door. After the speaker had droned on for some forty minutes, the fellow got up and left. On the way out, he met a friend coming in. The man asked, “Am I very late, Zeke? What’s he talking about?” “Don’t know. He ain’t said yet!” In every speaking situation, what matters most is this: Did the audience get the speaker’s point? I know no greater misery than sensing the audience isn’t listening to me. It makes me so nervous I