If your purpose is to preach great sermons, then you had better give up. The world does not need sermons, it needs a message, and there is all of difference in world between a sermon and a message. You can go to a seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages. Sermons will never influence your congregation but messages will. Sermon appeal to the intellect, messages to the heart. What people need today are not great sermons but great messages.
