Emphasis Preaching Journal

A test was conducted at Princeton Theological Seminary. A couple of psychologists recruited 40 students from the seminary. Half of the students were asked to prepare a talk about the work that ministers do; the other half were asked to prepare a talk about the parable of the Good Samaritan. One by one, the volunteers were sent out from the meeting room where they all were, and they were given a map to show them where to go to a recording studio to tape their speech. And so every 15 minutes one of the students was sent out.