Some people report to me that invitations to respond to a sermon have become quite rare in our North American churches. I know in my own experience, I only encounter a pastor requesting people to make such a specific response to his or her sermon on the rarest of occasions. But, that doesn’t mean that invitations don’t have value.
I do feel impelled to issue a word of caution with regard to invitations. So, I have made my recommendations the subject of Podcast 228. If you wish to listen to my thoughts on this subject, I invite you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website. In the center of the homepage, you can then click to go to the Podcast page and then listen to this particular Podcast.
As you can tell from the number of this Podcast, I have had the privilege of recording very close to four and a half years of these ten to fifteen minute Podcasts. They put the “coach” in Sermon-Coach, because I try to use these Podcasts to help share some of the lessons God has shown me during my fifty-plus years of ministry.
The people in our congregations need to have us, as pastors, help them find the best pathway for them to move along to ever-increasing spiritual formation. I think you will find my concerns about the most effective use of invitations helpful in this regard.
I continue to receive 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 your church.
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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