Asides And a Confusing Sermon
It seems that preachers often want to add in asides while preaching their sermons. You know when preachers are on a topic and something immediately comes to mind. Instead of evaluating whether the point is relevant to the topic at hand, the preacher simply determines if the added content is true. If it is true, they present it.
The problem with such asides is that people lose the point. Sometimes even the preacher loses the point of the sermon. And then the sermon can go on without any real destination. The preacher simply jumping from a true but not necessarily connected point to another true but not necessarily connected point.
The people may holla, but the end is a confusing amalgamation of unrelated points that is incorrectly called a sermon. The answer is to make sure that you have one point and that everything you preach contributes to the understanding, experiencing, and application of that point. It may be true, but if it is not relevant to THIS sermon, then let it go and preach that fact in a later sermon when it is relevant.
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