Nothing New Under the Sun: Preachers as Entertainers

Another interesting gem from Sproul's chapter in Feed My Sheep,

"The temptation to turn the pulpit into theater and the church building into a place of entertainment is not something that just happened a few decades ago. It was a problem that Luther struggled with in the 16th century. He said, when he preached his most powerful sermons on justification by faith alone, that people fell asleep in his congregation. he maintained that the people in the parishes came to be entertained. Even in the 16th century, the pastors, during the middle of the Reformation, were struggling with the demands of their congregations that they entertain them with their preaching."