The beauty of using a story in your sermon is that a story does two things:
- It focuses the hearer. (Think about how absorbed you get in a great movie or someone telling a great story.)
- It invites your other senses (touch, taste, smell, sight).
In other words, you can’t go wrong using story in an intentional way when you preach.
While you’re at it, check out the second episode of Donald Miller’s new podcast. It inspired this blog post.