The Sin of Preaching for the Nod
Bob Hyatt introduces us to the sin of “preaching for the nod” in a recent post. He writes this:
Every once in a while I find myself preaching for the nod. That’s when we try to hard wire a bit of ego-stroke into a Sunday morning message. We do it a lot, and it’s so easy—insert that small comment, that little aside, or even that main point that we know will appeal to the sensibilities of certain listeners. You know, the left-leaning (or right leaning) political comment. The doctrinal aside that scratches the itch of that person so prone to give up the “Amen” or the vigorous head nod…