Yellin' stompin' snortin' preacher boys!

In Appalchian Mountain Religion, by Deborah Mcauley, this syle of preaching is called the New England Holy Tone. She says that this is the style of preaching that was used in colonial America and has been preserved in Appalcahia and other parts of the South.

 

Our preacher used to say... 'Amen? Oh My? or Move on?'

Men who sound like Robert Schuller when they preach bore me to death! Wipe that smile off your face!

 

I wouldn't want to git into a car with one of them preachers drivin' who just preached with all that HEEEEE cause hyperventilation can sure change your perspectives and visuals.

 

Sicky sweet ingnorance. Of course who wouldn't get bored. But just the same I have met people who have given their lives to Christ because of him but have moved past the weak preaching onto meat.

 

I like Hell Fire and Brimstone preaching as long as he is preaching the Word. What I don't like is a preacher to read a scripture and then for the next 30-45 minutes go rant and rave and holler about everything and in a sense only use his opening text as window dressing. I also like a preacher who can preach a monotone sermon doing verse by verse exposition. I think we have to respect differant styles as long as they are Scripture centered.

 

All this talk about spitting, wheezing, hell-and-brimstone preachers is making me sentimental. I'd like to hear just one more sermon like that. It been years now since I've heard one; but, shucks, don't know where I could go here in the politically correct heart of Texas to here one!
WallyGator

P.S.:Got Passion?

 

Our Minister of Ed and Admin. has a soft manner but is right on scripture and never chases rabbits in his sermons. Bro. Jack can tell you you're heading straight to hell without ever raising his voice or thumping his Bible. He said he told a joke ONCE and it failed terribly so he might use an example but other than that... straight shooting while quiet, so quiet at times you have to really concentrate to hear him.

BUT... he's NO Robert Schuller smiling and leading people right into that New Age, 'I'm okay, you're okay' road to hell.

 

Not the earrings and bracelets....

I agree with the pretend preacher that someone needs to grab some parents and shake some sense into their heads because they're so busy working to earn Humvee's and $300,000 houses that they aren't talking to their children about Jesus, taking their children to church and living lives that teach the kids by example how a Christian should live. The BIBLE says many will be told... Depart from Me, I never knew you'. The BIBLE also tells us in

2 Timothy 4: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith

 

It doesn't matter what a soft spoken preacher says if a sinner doesn't want to hear that his premarital sex, smoking, etc. is sin, he'll hone in on some key phrases and apply them to what he'd rather hear than hear what God's word says.

People, as the Bible says, will find a preacher who will tell them what they want to hear. That's what's so very sad.

Quiet or loud.... tell me what God has to say in His word and back it up with where it is in God's word!

'Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God' (Jonathan Edwards) is a wonderful read. Long.... but quite inspiring!

 

gb93433
Every person I know saved in one of these churches and stayed there have failed to mature enough to understand meat. Those saved under this kind of preaching and movded on quickly are more mature.


My husbnads family always choose this kind of preacher for funerals, the ones I've heard never knew just what they were saying, neither did any of the hearers. So Wednesday we've got to listen to an hour of this.

 

Amen, and Amen!!!

I've had my 'nuff of this kind of preaching, and I will not bear to sit under it ever again, God help me!

Unfortunately, this kind of "preaching" runs rampant in my neck of the woods. It is what my wife was raised on, and she doesn't see anything wrong with it.

I know that a man cannot pastor a church for any length of time unless the Lord is in it. But I do so wish that the Lord would have at least told them that a sermon ought to have some type of relation with the text that they are "preaching" from.

In Christ,
Trotter

 

Amen, sister!

It breaks my heart when I look around inside these "country churches" (take the term for whatever you want). I see so many people with clean, shining faces, eager smiles, outgoing hearts, and infantile spirits.

Why? They have never tasted the meat of the word of God. Oh, they get a whiff of it at the beginning of the sermon, when the text is read. And they might get a nibble from the Sunday School material (if the church even uses prepared materials). But, as far as getting into the breadth and depth of the word of God, all they get is the regurgitation of what their pastor thinks it might mean, or what alagory he dreams up about it.

In my experience (again, take it for what it is woth), I have found that those who scream and shout are totally lost as to what the passage is actually saying (in its context, to its original audience). Instead, they take what the words mean in today's context and use that as a springboard for "what Pastor So-and-so wants to rant about today."

And that is just so, so sad.

In Christ,
Trotter

 

Interesting-- If a church diminishes and closes after a ranter and raver leaves, apparently all his effort has not produced maturity or stability. It seems that it may be- after all- wood hay and stubble. When a young preacher asked an older, wiser man,"How do you know if you're called to preach?", the older man replied. "Check and see if anyone is called to listen to you!"
Resting in Him.

 

Amen, Davey-boy! Good one !

In Christ,
Trotter

 

Yeh, Dr. Bob---that's exactly what Gina(the culprit who started this thread) wants, too! She wants a preacher boy who will "stay at home and yell at her"---so that she can listen!!

Blackbird went to page 1 of this thread---and first thing happened was---he started pickin' up on sublinial messages inside the posted message on the very top!! You weed out the nonsense---leavin' the sophisticated words alone---and you arrive at the conclusion that she is lookin' for a "mail order" preacher!!

Gina knows that Blackbird is a