Pastor, Aim to Preach Simple Sermons

Greg does bring up a good point. My father grew up in a one room school and would talk about how the older kids would often help teach the younger ones. In the days before Sunday School and Junior Church families sat together for the sermon and later the parents retaught the sermon to their children. There are some churches today that are using the “no junior church/family together worship” model with success.

I have also know some brilliant preachers who had the gift of “putting the cookies” on the lower shelf. I know one who could successfully explain justification by faith and imputation to lower elementary kids.

"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan

Carl Trueman likes to tell the story about how, somewhere in his famous book on pastors, Richard Baxter advised preachers to always say at least one thing in a sermon that’s totally incomprehensible, so people will think you’re smarter than them - and they’ll keep you around. I need to find the quote, It’s pretty funny.

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.