How to Rate a Sermon

Excerpt from: Brian J. Dodd. Empowered Church Leadership (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2003), 56-7. How to Rate a Sermon [ G ] – Generally acceptable to everyone. Full of inoffensive, puerile platitudes; usually described as “wonderful” or “marvelous.” [ PG ] – For more mature congregations. At times this sermon even makes the gospel relevant to…