More Ain't Better

There is no doubt that Americans have become more intolerant and impatient. We don't like to wait in lines and we want our waiter to bring our food now. We complain if the movie is too long and many sports fans have ideas to speed up their favorite game be it football, basketball or baseball. I cannot imagine today's college students using the University library's card-catalog system to locate materials, research and write a term paper. The academic instant Internet google search has spoiled us all.

Well, if you want to speed up athletic contests, consider the following: In baseball let's make the home plate umpire to stop squeezing the strike zone to favor hitters. Enforce the rule-book zone.
 In football allow one huddle per four downs. In basketball give the team who is fouled the choice of shooting free throws or taking the ball out of bounds as the game clock continues to run.

Okay,  now that we've solved the length of sport contests, lets propose we do something about these 'windy' pulpit preachers...their sermons are too long. Process and consider the following Pew Research Center findings: The major Christianity branches in America differ in sermon length. The Roman Catholic sermons on the average last 14-minutes while black Protestant sermons are four-times longer...that's right about 54-minutes. White Protestant preachers will bloviate for some 27-minutes.
(Personal observation: I've attended many black churches over the years and I believe I can add a couple of footnotes regarding white and black protestants: The black congregation is better dressed but the white folks start on time.)

I've done my share of speech-giving around the country over the years and I believe you can talk or preach as as long as you can keep the audiences attention, however I'm reminded that a good speech (sermon) possesses a good beginning and a good ending with little time between the two.

I vote for a Church Service with songs well know by the congregation accompanied by a softly played organ or piano followed by an 18-minute sermon. I can't be sittin' in that Pew longer that 55-total minutes...I have a prostate the size of Nebraska.

How long do you think a sermon should be?
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