nnatew24
Puritan Board Freshman
I'm interested to hear some thoughts from others on the matter of how we use supporting texts in our preaching (as opposed to the primary text).
Specifically, it frustrates me when a preacher has the congregation flipping back and forth from passage to passage during the sermon. It's not the use of supporting or secondary texts that bothers; it's the request to "turn here" or "turn back there", etc. that gets on my nerves. I personally find it very distracting from the main point at hand and the main text at hand when the preacher asks us to 'turn'. I lose my focus, I lose his point, and I perceive that others do as well.
It is my preference that the preacher quote the passage and state the reference if a supporting text is necessary, as I do in my own practice as well. But even then, I try to limit the number of references because of the importance of nailing down the thesis from the primary text alone.
What are your thoughts? Am I off-base here?
Specifically, it frustrates me when a preacher has the congregation flipping back and forth from passage to passage during the sermon. It's not the use of supporting or secondary texts that bothers; it's the request to "turn here" or "turn back there", etc. that gets on my nerves. I personally find it very distracting from the main point at hand and the main text at hand when the preacher asks us to 'turn'. I lose my focus, I lose his point, and I perceive that others do as well.
It is my preference that the preacher quote the passage and state the reference if a supporting text is necessary, as I do in my own practice as well. But even then, I try to limit the number of references because of the importance of nailing down the thesis from the primary text alone.
What are your thoughts? Am I off-base here?