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Sermon Sabotage: 10 Ways to Ruin a Message for Teens (or Adults)

8. Make people feel as if they need to do more for Jesus to truly love and accept them.

Forget the key concepts of grace and forgiveness.

9. Overuse or underuse humor, stories and illustrations.

Either bombard the audience or leave out any attention-getting material.

10. Refuse to give the Gospel.  

Leave people hanging when it comes to the heart of the matter. Or focus on Law and sin, without presenting the solution.

Want to improve your sermon and message skills? Then be sure to avoid what I’ve listed here!

This article about how to ruin a sermon originally appeared here.