Tough words that are really needed. Going to share this post with the pastor of the church we are attending. Fortunately, he is the kind of preacher you are encouraging all to be.
This morning I watched a YouTube video in which Todd Friel (Wretched Radio) declared: “The problem with today’s preachers; nobody wants to kill them.” His point was that the reason preachers from centuries ago were imprisonned or killed was their determination to preach truth regardless the culture’s feelings. Too often our modern preachers and pastors are afraid of offending.
It is with that sentiment that I penned the following open letter. We need to love desperately, but without compromising our message.
Dear Fellow Preachers,
Now’s the time – it’s actually past time – for some honest-to-goodness, strong-as-steel, George S. Patton and John Wayne-like BACKBONE!
I don’t care if you’re Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Methodist, or whatever…MAN UP!! Stand in the gap! Quit being a politically motivated, crowd-pleasing, purse string-tying wimp and PREACH THE WORD!
Seriously, check out what’s going on in the world and what’s coming to America. Gentlemen, more…
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The problem is both with the preachers and those being preached too. Far to many preachers are in it for the wrong reason, a job, which it clearly is not. It needs to be a burden so heavy on one’s heart that you cannot imagine waking up and doing anything else. Plus all who have that burden must be like Timothy (2 Tim 1:5-7).
The problem to many are man pleaser and far too many in the seats/pews today have the attitude Pauls warns of in 2 Tim 4:3 (AMP) For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,
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Well said. God Bless You.
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