I always tried to be as clear as I could be, both in organizing the the sermon and preaching it, but it’s amazing the things people come up with! Peoples’ minds must do a lot of wandering during the service!

I never stopped being amazed at how some folk’s minds worked. And it always made me more determined to be as clear and organized as possible.

That whole feedback process isn’t that simple.

We’ve implemented something like this with limited success. It’s not easy to find people who will give out criticism (constructive obviously). Most people want to say, “Well done”, “Good job” and other platitudes rather than “This is what must change!”.

Also you really need consistent feedback not a pat on the back once every three months. In order to get that trick right you really need to have some kind of a system in place.

All in all it’s a useful exercise but not a easy one.

In Christ,

Mark

Of course if you want someone to give you feed back on the text itself, you need someone who knows the text.

Audience Analysis, now there is a great tag. I will use this in a post.

Great post.