This is an excerpt from my book The Twenty-Five Minute Learner.

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A disciple is a learner. You said yes to being a learner the day you were baptized.

The hour has been cut in half. Sunday school now meets for twenty-five minutes. Elders quorum and Relief Society now meet for twenty-five minutes, every week, instead of fifty minutes every other week. The math is the same, and the math is also a lie. By the time the opening prayer ends, by the time announcements are read, by the time the class settles, the teacher walks in with closer to twenty minutes of usable time. Twenty minutes to teach, to invite, to send before the closing prayer.

That is what the teacher faces. This book is about what you face, sitting in the chair across the room.

The shorter hour has changed your Sunday too. Twenty minutes does not give the teacher room to repeat. There is no warmup paragraph. No second pass on the main idea. No three-minute illustration before the doctrine. If you arrive distracted, the lesson will leave you distracted. If you arrive ready, the same twenty minutes can teach you more than a fifty-minute lesson ever did, because the form is sharper now and the teacher has been forced to cut hard.

Before we go any further, a word about who this book is for. It is for the Saint who has already covenanted to be a learner and may not have noticed.