You really fall for Paul

Had to be there

Flip over to the Book of Acts and you can read about Paul the apostle. He once spent a week preaching in Troas.

When dinner time rolled around the first day he was there, Paul started his sermon, and even though people kept looking at their sundials to see what time it was, he kept going until midnight.

Acts 20:9-12
"And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him, said Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

And they brought the young man alive and were not a little comforted."

There you go, preachers. Talk until people fall asleep and die, heal them, and you'll have an audience until morning. No one's going to forget that sermon. But they may forget to write it down. No one knows what Paul said. That's why you had to be there.