This guy may be a bit pessimistic.
I sure hope he is exaggerating.
But he is certainly seeing a significant problem.
His name is T. David Gordon and he teaches preaching in a seminary.
“I would guess that of the sermons I’ve heard in the last twenty-five years, 15 percent had a discernible point; I could say, ‘The sermon was about X.’ Of those 15 percent, however, less than 10 percent demonstrably based the point on the text read. That is, no competent effort was made to persuade the hearer that God’s Word required a particular thing; it was simply asserted.”
Ouch.
I hope I am in that small percentile this Sunday!