Here are some great thoughts on the use of imagination and preaching from Haddon Robinson:
The best sermons don't describe emotions; they create them. That requires your imagination.
Jesus told stories—secular, worldly stories—that changed his listeners' angle of vision. They were not 'Bible stories' as we think of them. He didn't read them out of a book. He made them up on the spot. He created them out of life. He used his imagination. Some hearers followed him; others wanted to murder him. But they got his point. If the sermon is for our hearers, then we must serve the hearers as our Teacher did. We must use our imaginations and help them use theirs.
So fire up that imagination for this Sunday!
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