################################################################################ START OF FILE: 2025-07-25 - This is a DiStRaCtIoN - Unknown Speaker.txt ################################################################################ SERMON DETAILS ======================================== Date: 2025-07-25 Title: This is a DiStRaCtIoN Speaker: Unknown Speaker Church: What Do You Mean By Type: Short Clip Duration: 1m Language: English URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXu1Z_UDlGk ======================================== TRANSCRIPT ======================================== Have you ever preached a sermon without notes? I did for the first time, and I'd love to tell you all about it. For any young preacher out there, for any person that's ever wondering what goes on behind the scenes, I did something different last Wednesday when I preached a few days ago. I only gave myself about 30 minutes to put together the sermon onto the actual word. And aside from scriptures, quotes, definitions of words, and a couple sentences, maybe two or three in the entire outline of the entire sermon, nothing else was added. And for comparison, usually I have like 50. I have I usually have a a huge outline of the whole thought to where if I read the notes, it could be its own sermon. But I didn't do that this time. And I'd love to tell you all about it. Because as young ministers, we want what we hear and we think, "Well, people like it. Is it good? Is it good?" And often when we're preaching, we can do something where we say, "Is this all right tonight?" When really what we're looking for is validation, there's a balance where you go according to the leading of the pastor. And but once you get to a certain point, when you know what you're preaching is the truth, it's according to the word of God, and you follow the rule of kiss to keep it simple, stupid, then you need to look for validation. is the truth whether or not someone says amen. And I'm going to talk about all that and go through the whole sermon of distractions to that.