Pastor and Teacher

[Blackfang]

It's okay if a brother doesn't like the style of a teacher's preaching? He says that he ia too boring.
I like to watch a teacher because I understand better the Bible (he is using simple and detailed explanations).

 

[crossnote]

It's okay if a brother doesn't like the style of a teacher's preaching? He says that he ia too boring.
I like to watch a teacher because I understand better the Bible (he is using simple and detailed explanations).

It's fine whatever style a preacher has as long as he is conveying the truth of Scripture.
Sometimes a preacher is considered 'boring' because he doesn't tell jokes or isn't entertaining enough, but that isn't the purpose of preaching.

 

[faroukfarouk]

It's fine whatever style a preacher has as long as he is conveying the truth of Scripture.
Sometimes a preacher is considered 'boring' because he doesn't tell jokes or isn't entertaining enough, but that isn't the purpose of preaching.

The words 'popular' and 'preacher' should really be a contradiction in terms. Some years ago some of the sermons of C H Spurgeon were re-issued, and the published tried to commend them as being by London's most popular preacher. (I would have thought that this would be a misnomer, frankly)

 

[crossnote]

The words 'popular' and 'preacher' should really be a contradiction in terms. Some years ago some of the sermons of C H Spurgeon were re-issued, and the published tried to commend them as being by London's most popular preacher. (I would have thought that this would be a misnomer, frankly)

It may have been true in Spurgeon's day but coming from the same land that gave us the Beatles who claimed to be more 'popular' than Jesus Christ back in their hey-day, I hardly doubt it would be true today.

 

[faroukfarouk]

It may have been true in Spurgeon's day but coming from the same land that gave us the Beatles who claimed to be more 'popular' than Jesus Christ back in their hey-day, I hardly doubt it would be true today.

I guess my point was that popularity is no yardstick for the doctrinal content of preaching.

 

[Sketcher]

It's okay if a brother doesn't like the style of a teacher's preaching? He says that he ia too boring.
I like to watch a teacher because I understand better the Bible (he is using simple and detailed explanations).

Sure. I've disliked a preacher because his method of delivery grated on me. And I couldn't verify some of the nuggets of scholarship he would sometimes drop.

His name was Rob Bell. This was years before he outright denied Christian orthodoxy with Love Wins, back when the videos his church produced were in circulation amongst college and young adult ministries. I'm not going to claim that was a premonition about him, but I really don't miss him. (He should repent of course.)

 

[crossnote]

I guess my point was that popularity is no yardstick for the doctrinal content of preaching.

Nor the truth of it's content.