I would urge every preacher to attempt an experimental sermon occasionally, especially if he or she is normally a very routine, conventional person.51

-- John Killinger

Change attracts attention. Every preacher knows this after watching people's attention shift to a child walking up the aisle and out the door to the bathroom. I was in a church once where a bird was flying around the sanctuary. The pastor could just as well have been reading out of the phone book for all the attention the sermon retained.

A change in sermon style also attracts the attention of the congregation. Preaching the same way every Sunday to today's audience deadens your preaching. Varying your usual style and doing something different in the pulpit on occasion will not only broaden your own skills and outlook, but…