In the book, Holy Sweat, by Tim Hansel, he tells of a guest preacher in a rather large church who began, “There are three points to my sermon.” Most people yawned at the point. They’d heard that many times before.

But he went on. “My first point is this. At this time there are approximately two billion people starving to death in the world.”

The reaction through the congregation was about the same, since they’d heard that sort of statement many times before, too. And then he said, “My secon…