[The Grammarian]

Gerald Marvel would rarely preach for more than 30 minutes. He believed that if you can't get the point across in 30 minutes, you definitely can't do it in an hour.

"The age of short sermons is the age of shallow piety." --Bishop Warren Akin Candler, UMC, Giants Against The Sky. My personal opinion of sermonettes. ;)

[xzins]

His point about "get the point across in 30 minutes" is totally insignificant to an expository preacher.

If one is preaching a bible passage, the text itself is the point. The beautiful thing, I think, about expository preaching/teaching is that the congregation is able to follow right along in their bibles.

[connectthedots]

"The age of short sermons is the age of shallow piety." --Bishop Warren Akin Candler, UMC, Giants Against The Sky. My personal opinion of sermonettes. ;)

I think Gerald Marvel knew what he was doing. His younger son, Bob Marvel is the senior pastor at Cornwall Church of God in Bellingham, WA.

Check out the history of the church. What it doesn't say about Bob Marvel is that his first wife divorced him after two years of marriage when he was the youth pastor of this church because she did not want to be a preacher's wife. The church wouldn't let him resign his position. As you can see, God is faithful.

Will try to find the web sites associated with his other two children. Their preaching style is patterned after their father's, and they are all very much used of God in ministry.

They don't preach Calvinism, but many are being saved and growing spiritually.