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1. The Purpose Of A Sermon
The purpose of a sermon is to transmit emotion. I would borrow the words of A. E. Housman, a poet, who wrote about the purpose of poetry: "To transmit emotion -- not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer -- is the particular function of poetry."1
The purpose of a sermon is to transmit emotion. I would borrow the words of A. E. Housman, a poet, who wrote about the purpose of poetry: "To transmit emotion -- not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer -- is the particular function of poetry."1
