John Chapman, Mark Twain and the Twenty Minute Sermon

Posted on November 22, 2016 
Filed under Opinion

David Mansfield“John Chapman and Mark Twain both had much and little in common.

Both were great communicators and raconteurs with a razor-sharp wit. But Chappo loved his golf while Twain is thought to have said that golf was a good walk ruined. Chappo’s spirituality was biblical and evangelical. Twain’s was anything but.

However, when it came to preaching, they had something very much in common. They had little patience for preaching that was unnecessarily long – or even longer than twenty minutes. …”

– At SydneyAnglicans.net, David Mansfield would love to hear better preaching.