“Unfortunately, we preachers are not always attentive to issues of delivery. Bad habits are often begun in seminary. The professor of homiletics says, ‘You will write three sermons for this class this semester.’ But those manuscripts, undelivered, are not yet ‘sermons.’ Better delivery is learned over a lifetime of preaching. The skills required for good oral communication are among the last to be acquired by us preachers. In preparing our sermons, sometimes we expend so much effort in devising what we say.”
–William Willimon, Preaching Master Class (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010), 45.
