Sometimes it may seem that a pastor addresses the same issues too often. Of course, the issues may be minor incidentals, but oftentimes they are vital truths. The person who has heard them for twenty years (+/-) needs to realize that it might be the first time some folks have heard those particular truths. (Hopefully there are "new" people constantly present in the church services).
Also, there are young people who may have heard the information, but remember, sometimes a person needs to hear the same information several times before it registers with them personally. The pastor should be leading the mature believers into greater light and more victories, but he should not be neglecting or leaving the novice or the weaker or the less mature people behind. The local church is a family with members at different levels of understanding, maturity, and development.
The repeating of basic truths is essential in these days of wild confusion and rapid change. Old truths need to be addressed in a contemporary setting and urged upon everyone, and especially the weaker believers. A faithful pastor does not want to lose anyone, but certainly not a "baby" Christian because that person was not properly taught, trained, nurtured, or corrected.
If you hear the same issues repeated, you should also be hearing truths that will help you grow and go in the right direction. Do not think that folks get truth by osmosis. Truth needs to be taught, and they need to be taught repeatedly, at different levels in order to build up and equip each part of the body.
And if you haven't noticed, sometimes the older believers become hardened or oblivious to the truths they learned years before. Sometimes the older believers become crancktified rather than sanctified, or sterilized rather than purified, or self-righteously petrified rather than self-denyingly edified. The New Testament tells us that believers should be reminded of the truths they have been taught in the past.
Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
2 Peter 1:10-15
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
