‘When the subject of preaching is addressed today, we are accustomed to asking only about the faithfulness of the message, but we avoid, almost altogether, the question of effectiveness. If T. David Gordon is at all correct, ‘that less than 30 percent of those who are ordained to the Christian ministry can preach even a mediocre sermon’…and that ‘of the sermons he has heard in the last twenty-five years, only 15 percent had a discernable point’, the question of effectiveness in preaching is an important one….’ Keep reading: https://agradio.org/recovering-the-directory-of-public-worship-on-preaching