The Power of Repetition

Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Blogs.

I just got through with the book “Tipping Point”. Every pastor needs to pick up a copy. But right now I would like your input on one topic.

The success of Blue’s Clues, which is a children’s show that took over Seseame Street, is on interaction with the kids and repetition. What Blue’s Clues did was to show a new episode every Monday. Then they would repeat the show 4 more times. By Friday the kids where yelling at the TV because they know how to interact. Interacting with the TV made the show a hit. It wasn’t a good story line or even hiring a creative team. The success was when they started repeating the episodes back to back.

What if we did the same thing with our services. I know that many pastors are doing sermon series but what if we could increase the effectiveness of the series by a lot of repetition? At first I would think that adults would become board with the same sermon. But what if we had the main concept then had a different application each week?

I went to the Dave Ramsey live seminar a couple of weeks ago. The whole time I am sitting there hoping he would say things that I read in his books and heard off his radio. Why? Because I invited people who have never heard Dave and I so wanted to make sure they heard key pieces of info that have really helped me. What if the reason why our members do not invite others is because of the lack of consistancy or repetition? It’s like they have no idea how well the service is really going to go, so they won’t invite someone to something they might be embarrassed about?

Solution: What if we had a main idea, then made different applications from week to week throughout a sermon series. I think that most will take that one application per week and try to stretch the sermon to 30 minutes. There is much more I can add but I really would like your input. What do you think? (Oh, a great sermon series that came to mind is the “First” sermon series put on by Gateway Church.

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