The Importance of Preaching

In the New Testament, the Sermon on the Mount just takes a few minutes to read. I think in our culture, it's appropriate that people can come to church for as long as they sit through a movie. And if people say they can't stick with it for 90 minutes, you say, all right, you do in other areas, and so on. In some settings, that'd be entirely appropriate. If you're in a military base in the middle of a war, and you get allocated 20 minutes, you know, a week for Sunday worship, you'd make it work. Now, I'm not trying to make a rule out of that at all, but I think