Bishop Henson's Four Sermon Tests
Story★★★★A sermon should be persuasive, Bishop Hensley Henson once said. “A good sermon must satisfy four requirements. It must be interesting or it will not be listened to. It must be intelligible or it will not be understood. It must be relevant or it will have no effect. It must be edifying or it will do no good.”
The point
A sermon must be interesting (to be heard), intelligible (to be understood), relevant (to have effect), and edifying (to do good).
Scripture
2 Timothy 2:24-25
Audience
Adults
Tone
Instructive · Practical
To tell aloud
under a minute · 58 words