"Here is a question worth sitting with: how well does your congregation follow your sermon when you preach? Do you even know the answer? Do you assume they do, or do you know they do?

 Some preachers/churches provide the congregation some form of their notes: points on the screen, a bulletin insert, or even a fill-in-the-blank handout — but if they did not have these tools, could they still follow your sermon? 

Not just understand individual points, but follow the movement of the whole message from beginning to end?"

Most preachers, if they are honest, are not sure. And that uncertainty is worth paying attention to.