Just Listened to JA Preach first night of TN Campmeeting....Disappointing....

[revrandy]

Originally Posted by Steadfast

I'm so sorry you had to endure that. :sshhh

If that takes endurance....I need more of it daily!!

[LadyRev]

Originally Posted by ReformedDave

It's what he said(the content), that got John's head lopped off. Not is cloths....

JA's STYLE is to use what some consider to be "crude" language. Some people don't care for that "style" of preaching. It isn't WHAT he says its HOW he says it. All those "descriptive" words are what some have a problem with.

John the Baptist's "style" was also crude, blunt, to the point. He told Herod and others exactly how it was. In Herod's case, this cost John his life.


Any other hairs you care to split now?

[ChTatum]

No hairs, but I can think of several heads.....

LOL!

[LadyRev]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Anyway...ya'll are talkin' like I said something bad about JA. I didn't.

CONFESS! You know you did it! Fess up!

[Hegavmelif]

Here is a perspective, How many women would endure the kind of verbal delivery and verbal content that we are critiquing JA for from their husbands? None of you. I have seen too many women in our movement walk away from their husbands of years simply because they did not like the tone in his voice or the way he talked to her.

The bottom line....we are the Bride of Christ. Do you really think it is O.K. for preachers to talk so rudely and condecending to the Bride of Christ but it is not O.K. for husbands to talk to their wives this way. As Christians were are not supposed to talk to anyone, spouse, family, friends, stangers, or anyone they way some of our men address the Bride of Christ from the pulpit.

Somehow we have been condidtioned over the years that it is ok for the man of God only because the man of God has told us that We are week if we can't take it.

[Hegavmelif]

'weak' not 'week'

[StillStanding]

Personally, I have always liked JA's style of preaching for it's entertainment value!!!

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Pianoman

Personally, I have always liked JA's style of preaching for it's entertainment value!!!

LOL He is entertaining, isn't he? And if you listen closely, you will get some real good spiritual stuff too.....

[LadyRev]

Originally Posted by Hegavmelif

Here is a perspective, How many women would endure the kind of verbal delivery and verbal content that we are critiquing JA for from their husbands? None of you. I have seen too many women in our movement walk away from their husbands of years simply because they did not like the tone in his voice or the way he talked to her.

And you know this how?

Women, apostolic women specifically, endure this stuff and much worse all the time. Many of them, I would say MOST of them, DON'T leave.

The reasons they stay vary from woman to woman. Some of them that stay actually SHOULD leave. But thats a whole different topic in itself.

I don't care for your analogy.

I don't like dead, dull, monotone, pansy preaching either but sometimes I have to endure it. Sometimes I have to look past the person and their delivery style and listen to the Word. Other times, as is the case with conferences and such, I can choose NOT to attend if I don't like the speaker.

So long as the problem isn't with my own pastor, all is well. Otherwise, the choice is mine. There are alot of preachers I don't care for due to "style" but that doesn't mean their style is necessarily wrong. I can't expect everyone to always speak the way "I" believe they should speak.

Oh, btw, I'll be sure to tell my husband that the next time he speaks to me in a "rude, crude, or crass" manner, I'm gonna leave him.

[Amos]

Originally Posted by Hegavmelif

Here is a perspective, How many women would endure the kind of verbal delivery and verbal content that we are critiquing JA for from their husbands? None of you. I have seen too many women in our movement walk away from their husbands of years simply because they did not like the tone in his voice or the way he talked to her.The bottom line....we are the Bride of Christ. Do you really think it is O.K. for preachers to talk so rudely and condecending to the Bride of Christ but it is not O.K. for husbands to talk to their wives this way. As Christians were are not supposed to talk to anyone, spouse, family, friends, stangers, or anyone they way some of our men address the Bride of Christ from the pulpit.

Somehow we have been condidtioned over the years that it is ok for the man of God only because the man of God has told us that We are week if we can't take it.

I question whether very many women have ever walked away from a long term marriage simply because of the tone of their husband's voice.

Methinks thou mayest have possibly been misinformed.

Preachers are part of the Bride too, btw.