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Sermons need to incorporate both revelation and relevance. Start with either one depending on your context, but use both.
Wealthy retired Italian law professor Giacinto Auriti began in July to
circulate a private currency, called the "simec," among citizens (and about 40
shopkeepers) in the town of Guardiagrele (about 125 miles from Rome), to
"prove" his longstanding theory that any currency, if put in the hands of
consumers instead of banks, yields more purchasing power. Auriti prints the
simecs, sells them at par with the lira, and then guarantees to merchants that
he will redeem them at double their value (by paying out from his family
fortune), thereby encouraging merchants to lower their prices. The simec has
caused an explosion of consumer sales, but the government believes the whole
idea is ridiculous and will collapse as soon as Auriti stops guaranteeing
simecs' value.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. --
You can’t think and hit at the same time. – Yogi Berra