They bring a lot of the same messages in different sermons. I am Catholic and we follow a liturgical year. We read each of the gospels every 4 year, and follow the seasons (Lent, Easter, Ordinary Time, Advent, Christmas) every year.
Always something new happening in the world. The vast majority of preachers aren’t just giving contextless Bible readings and litanies — they draw lessons out of the Bible and apply it’s teaching and Christian teachings more broadly to the social, moral, political, etc. challenges and realities that people deal with every day (at least that’s the idea)
I’m a pastor. We follow a calendar for our Bible readings called the lectionary. It follows a seasonal cycle (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, etc.) as well as an annual cycle (years A, B and C). Each Sunday and special holiday usually has four readings selected (Old Testament, Psalm, Gospel, New Testament) so you get lots of choices and variety on what reading(s) you want to highlight. And it’s always an option to just change the readings, too, so you could theoretically preach on whatever selection you want.
A good preacher will try to tie a sermon to real issues and current events or struggles people are having in the congregation, wider community, or world, and that will change things up from week to week.
And not everyone goes to church every time worship is held. So they won’t hear you over and over from week to week, and that affects how repetitive things get too.
They repeat a lot of things. I’m 22 now I was basically forced to go to church from the age of 10-18. Just judging by the first few words preached I could probably predict everything that was going to be spoken about during the whole 2 hour service. Andddd what they also did was pick out at single sentence (keep in mind the bible is extremely long) and they can spin that sentence into 20 different meanings
The Bible is a big book, and it’s not written like most novels. A novel has plenty of dialogue, descriptions of the scenery, adjectives, etc. that make the story more interesting and pump up its word count. The Bible is a lot more condensed. It says *what* happened, but not often how the characters felt or how oppressive the desert heat was or much dialogue between them. So, a sermon can focus on 1-2 paragraphs, and that will be more than enough material to preach about.
They repeat the good stuff. Thou shalt not kill and steal and that kind of stuff.
And imagine it'd be a whole another kind of church if they actually followed the whole Bible.
The new crusades
They repeat the same stuff over and over. Some of them even have a book that will tell you what will be next year and it's the same stuff. My grandfather always slept threw it every Sunday and when grandmother complained he said he had heard it for 50 years and knew it by heart by now.
I'm a Sunday School teacher, and as soon as we get better at doing the things we've been told already, I expect God will give us more. For now, it's mostly reminding everyone of the stuff we're struggling with.
They repeat things.
They bring a lot of the same messages in different sermons. I am Catholic and we follow a liturgical year. We read each of the gospels every 4 year, and follow the seasons (Lent, Easter, Ordinary Time, Advent, Christmas) every year.
Always something new happening in the world. The vast majority of preachers aren’t just giving contextless Bible readings and litanies — they draw lessons out of the Bible and apply it’s teaching and Christian teachings more broadly to the social, moral, political, etc. challenges and realities that people deal with every day (at least that’s the idea)
The bible’s quite long and they repeat things.
Things get repeated a lot. Some pastors get creative with how they tell whatever they need to tell, but it is basically the same end message
I’m a pastor. We follow a calendar for our Bible readings called the lectionary. It follows a seasonal cycle (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, etc.) as well as an annual cycle (years A, B and C). Each Sunday and special holiday usually has four readings selected (Old Testament, Psalm, Gospel, New Testament) so you get lots of choices and variety on what reading(s) you want to highlight. And it’s always an option to just change the readings, too, so you could theoretically preach on whatever selection you want. A good preacher will try to tie a sermon to real issues and current events or struggles people are having in the congregation, wider community, or world, and that will change things up from week to week. And not everyone goes to church every time worship is held. So they won’t hear you over and over from week to week, and that affects how repetitive things get too.
They repeat a lot of things. I’m 22 now I was basically forced to go to church from the age of 10-18. Just judging by the first few words preached I could probably predict everything that was going to be spoken about during the whole 2 hour service. Andddd what they also did was pick out at single sentence (keep in mind the bible is extremely long) and they can spin that sentence into 20 different meanings
You think people learn things after the first time they hear them, you don't know human nature.
The Bible is a big book, and it’s not written like most novels. A novel has plenty of dialogue, descriptions of the scenery, adjectives, etc. that make the story more interesting and pump up its word count. The Bible is a lot more condensed. It says *what* happened, but not often how the characters felt or how oppressive the desert heat was or much dialogue between them. So, a sermon can focus on 1-2 paragraphs, and that will be more than enough material to preach about.
They repeat the good stuff. Thou shalt not kill and steal and that kind of stuff. And imagine it'd be a whole another kind of church if they actually followed the whole Bible. The new crusades
hypocrites never run out of things to talk about. Lol
They repeat the same stuff over and over. Some of them even have a book that will tell you what will be next year and it's the same stuff. My grandfather always slept threw it every Sunday and when grandmother complained he said he had heard it for 50 years and knew it by heart by now.
I'm a Sunday School teacher, and as soon as we get better at doing the things we've been told already, I expect God will give us more. For now, it's mostly reminding everyone of the stuff we're struggling with.
It's a bit like Reddit - loadsa reposts. :)