Holding a sermon will reward a preacher with a faith related bonus when preaching to a group of listeners. A valid listener is a [[premium]] player of the same [[kingdom]] (both follower '''or''' priest), which has not received an [[alignment]] gain in the past half hour and is near the preacher (4 tiles).
*Sermons give 0.02 faith per valid listener (priest included) in the area, minimum listeners for faith gain is 4 and maximum gain seems like its 2.50 (not confirmed).
*The priest giving the sermon does NOT count as a listener. So you need 7 players total to reset the prays for the day (the preacher and 6 valid listeners).
*Sermons reset the prayer counter for the preacher if 6 valid listeners attended. This counts only for Freedom servers, preachers on '''Epic servers do not get this benefit.'''
**If you did not gain at least 0.12 faith from the sermon itself, you did not have enough valid listeners to reset your prayer counter.