Momentum. Once you have it, it makes everything a whole lot easier. Momentum, it’s the impetus of something moving, gaining speed, all of which makes it that much harder to stop. Momentum—you see it a lot in sports.

I’m not an athlete, but a churchman. But, hey, churches work better when the members are excited about what’s happening. When the congregation is working together and accomplishing more than would be normally expected.

When you have momentum as a congregation, respect it. Don’t you be the one to fowl things up by a dumb mistake of one kind or another. Don’t let the enemy turn things around because of you. Don’t give away something most wonderful. Resaid, don’t lose your momentum.

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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Pastors’ kids don’t usually like to hear themselves used as stories in their dad’s sermons. But often incidents in their lives are great to illustrate a given point. So what does a minister do? Would you ever talk about your kids if you were preaching?

I was with a city minister the other day who came up with a clever solution. Every time he uses one of his kids as a sermon illustration, good story or bad one, that child gets a dollar if that son or daughter was listening. Not a bad idea. The dollars ease whatever embarrassment there might have been. And, the system keeps the kids listening.

I take my hat off to this pastor. Wish I’d thought of the idea earlier, except my kids are older now, and they’d never settle for a dollar.

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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A beautiful young Chinese woman smiles at me in a photograph. She’s a recent convert and her story is in a ministry newsletter I recently received from a group I support.

My mind goes back to a conversation with a man who apparently didn’t know what I know. When I last saw him, he was in the critical-care unit at our nearby hospital.

“You’re near death,” I told him. “Is there any way I can minister to you in the privacy of this room?”

Well, he started to cry. “I’m going to go into the next world,” he said, “never having led anyone to Christ.”

“Oh, no you won’t,” I responded. “I have led hundreds to Jesus and you have supported me for years. In the church I play my part, you play yours, and we share the results. And that’s true.”

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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Recently, a pastor told me a funny story about a minister who was given a pie by a woman in his congregation, but it was so awful the family couldn’t eat it. So they dumped it in the garbage. Now the question was, what to say to the woman who baked it.

Well, sure enough, at church the next Sunday, he was asked, “How did you like my pie?”

“I tell you,” the pastor responded. “Pies like that don’t last very long around our house.”

And, of course, the woman was so pleased, she baked the pastor another one!

On a serious note, the wife of the minister telling me that story had a very special gift. Not music, not teaching, but baking for widows in the congregation, for single moms, or for people in the community going through a hard time. All I joking aside, I say that is truly a wonderful gift!

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I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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