Woodford, Lucas V. “In Living Color: Narrative Rhetoric for a Lutheran Homiletic in the Digital Age” LOGIA 25:3 (Holy Trinity 2015),
even minutes. That’s it. Tat’s all a preacher gets nowadays. Afer that hands fdget, minds wander, and bodies are restless. Yes, 420 seconds is all that is lef of the average attention span. Tat means seven short minutes is all that the average person is willing to listen to a sermon.1 Exceed the given time limit and preachers are at the mercy of a congregation struggling with a digitally induced attention defcit disorder. Of course, most preachers do actually preach longer than seven minutes, but understanding how hearers are conditioned to listen and how long they are prone to remain engaged is vital for good preaching…