“If the preacher is greatly excited at the outset, the audience usually are not, and he had better restrain himself, so as not to get beyond the range of their sympathies” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 255).
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Greetings Pastor Wilson,
Could you e-mail me –
I have a proposition for you (and i would prefer discussing it with you rather than your people).
anti-theism@outlook.com
JC
This is good advice, but it may also be possible to start a sermon with an exciting chase scene, like James Bond movies do, before you get down to the real business of story telling.