continuing study of homiletics, which provides us with the categories we need to analyze what effective communicators do. For example, my continuing study of preaching books and articles has helped me see how modern listeners have evolved. Modern listeners respond well to an inductive approach to sermons, where a number of examples from life are given and then principles extracted from them. Listeners are a bit bored when we begin by expounding principles, even if the principles are illustrated.
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