too much Lapsha hanging

Puns, jingles and verbal fireworks, some people are tired
of it, others still believe in those strong emotions that
pamper one’s soul when you listen to a good speaker.
Once an elderly lady said to me after the service:
“Pastor, that was funny. You are a good actor.”
I felt like a total failure.
Is that what pastoring means, good rhetoric spiced up with
entertaining delivery?
A good speaker can easily draw people’s attention from the content
of his message by simply hanging Lapsha (long macarony)
on the listener’s ears, as the Russian idiom says it.
Hanging macaroni on somebody’s ears doesn’t make sense at all,
neither does decorative speaking without any content in it.
They should never substitute for the message of grace and truth.
“Good message, Pastor!”
“Thank you, what was it about?”
Was it really the Word of God that will not return to God void,
but shall accomplish that what He pleases? Is.55:11
I thought about the old field preachers. They had no flashing lights,
no screens, microphones, air-conditions, just the truth connecting
with believing hearts. I Cor.2:1
They read their sermons. People were crying and repenting with
tears in their eyes.
We have a call to speak words that not only tickle the surface of
people’s soul, but stay with them even in the darkest trials of their life.
Lord, give us more of those words!