Time Allocated to Preaching

One of the issues churches address is filling the time allocated to preaching/teaching.

Jonathan Winters and Tim Conway while talented were never successful being the "star" in weekly television series. Trying to come up with new material every week was too much to expect. They made good "guest appearance" people but not main character people. Others such as Sid Caesar folded under the pressure. It is not practical to expect anyone to deliver two, forty-five minute, presentations and teach one or two classes week after week year after year; plus be on call 24/7 to the entire membership and in the case of GSMCOC have a full time job.

Years ago Robert Townsend wrote in "Up the Organization" that a CEO should not remain with a corporation longer than five years. Townsend thought if the CEO remained longer the CEO's personality would override the corporation's personality and ideas would be lost due to people not making a suggestion due to their belief the CEO would never go for it.

Recently I read where a preacher was honored for being with the same congregation for fifty-years. While those folks were proud I thought how sad, that that congregation has been  limited to one man's beliefs, views and opinions for half a century. Preaching/lecture can be used to make people aware but has little value in teaching.

Relying on the preacher to be the sole source of all biblical information distributed to and from the congregation weakens Church leaders and laity..

The pressure congregations put on preachers is not only nonbiblical it injures the spiritual development of the congregation.