Preaching to the converted

Blogotional has an interesting post where he seems to argue that preaching should be targetted at the maturing christians and not visiting unbelievers. My growing conviction is that every sermon I preach needs to be targetted at both groups. I want a child who knows nothing about God to be able to understand AND a theology professor to benefit in some way from the same sermon. Is it any wonder why preaching is such a fearsome task.

There is no doubt in my mind that John is onto something about the way that the church doesnt encourage maturity in its members. He should read Nancy’s book which is in my pile of books I have started to read and not got back to for a while!