{"id":2477,"date":"2019-01-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2019-01-23T19:57:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T00:57:59","slug":"3-points-in-a-1-minute-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/3-points-in-a-1-minute-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Points in a 1-Minute Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/tdpyx-a50cc6?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/tdpyx-a50cc6?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>One Sunday a church with a large congregation invited a guest priest to offer the mass and to preach<\/u>. <br \/><\/strong><br \/>When he got up to preach, he said, <em>\u201cThere are three points to my sermon.\u201d<\/em> Some people yawned when they heard this. <u>They had heard this many times before and figured they would be quite bored by the time he finally got to the end of point three<\/u>. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>\u201cMy first point is this: Today there are about two billon people who are starving in our world because of a lack of food.\u201d<\/em> <u>The reaction in the pews was much the same, since they had heard that kind of statement many times before.<\/u> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201c<em>My second point,\u201d <\/em>he said. <u>People sat up and started to listen. He was already on the second point<\/u>. <em>\u201cMy second point is that most of you <strong>don\u2019t give a damn!<\/strong>\u201d<br \/><\/em><br \/><u>The priest paused for a moment as gasps and rumblings flowed through the congregation<\/u>. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>\u201cMy third point is that the real tragedy among Christians today is that many of you are now more concerned that I said \u2018<u>damn<\/u>\u2019 than you are that <u>I said two billion people are starving to death<\/u>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>  He then left the pulpit and sat down.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>The whole sermon took less than a minute. It is in many ways one of the most powerful sermons ever given. The preacher was reminding us we are not being called by Jesus to only piety, but to genuine morality. <strong>We are being called to action, not to fancy words.<\/strong>  <u>A God Provide<\/u><br \/><\/em><br \/><strong><em><u>Christianity is about what you practice, not just about what you profess<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One Sunday a church with a large congregation invited a guest priest to offer the mass and to preach. When he got up to preach, he said, \u201cThere are three points to my sermon.\u201d Some people yawned when they heard this. They had heard this many times before and figured they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1547949819_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One Sunday a church with a large congregation invited a guest priest to offer the mass and to preach. When he got up to preach, he said, \u201cThere are three points to my sermon.\u201d Some people yawned when they heard this. 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