tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post6009653048393490599..comments2023-09-15T08:54:19.379-04:00Comments on New England Pastor: Whatever Happened to Good Preaching?Shawn Bracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10603380405719498288noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post-62156587090290563882008-04-14T13:59:00.000-04:002008-04-14T13:59:00.000-04:00Hi Bulworth,Thank you for your comments on my vari...Hi Bulworth,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comments on my various posts. I have enjoyed reading them.<BR/><BR/>I'm afraid I will have to disagree with you on this one, as you could probably already deduce. I think there is a vacuum of good preaching and I think that preaching should be the focal point of our corporate worship. Whenever there has been revival in the Christian church, it has come Shawn Bracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603380405719498288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post-22991587078502943862008-04-11T13:53:00.000-04:002008-04-11T13:53:00.000-04:00I've generally been pretty content with most of th...I've generally been pretty content with most of the preaching I've heard from SDA pulpits. That I now live in the Wash, D.C. area where SDA churches abound and where there are a plethura of SDA officials and trained ministers probably has something to do with that. But even when I haven't lived in this area, I've been generally happy with the quality of sermons.<BR/><BR/>What has frustrated me Bulworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506195561153519897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post-10424296261375114912008-01-11T11:23:00.000-05:002008-01-11T11:23:00.000-05:00Well, I will tell you who is on my list sometime. ...Well, I will tell you who is on my list sometime. I don't necessarily have a list, per se, and I haven't thought extensively about it. But I will think about it sometime and try to come up with some names. It may be more than ten; it may be less than ten. But in proportion to the number of preachers I have heard, it is very small!Shawn Bracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603380405719498288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post-16139798539919345822008-01-10T23:21:00.000-05:002008-01-10T23:21:00.000-05:00You summed up why I had to change churches a coupl...You summed up why I had to change churches a couple of years ago. I couldn't take the sermons any more. I would be very interested to hear who is on your list of 10preachers...We'll talk privately!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post-71848419599220929082008-01-07T07:21:00.000-05:002008-01-07T07:21:00.000-05:00Thank you for your thoughts, Joel. I agree that it...Thank you for your thoughts, Joel. I agree that it is very hard to maintain a good preaching schedule when you have a preacher saying one thing one week, and another one coming in the next week and saying the exact opposite thing. It confuses the congregation.<BR/><BR/>Ideally, I would love to be able to make sure that every lay person who speaks at my churches is of a similar mindset as me, but Shawn Bracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603380405719498288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601946653328882528.post-31459637980600051092008-01-06T01:09:00.000-05:002008-01-06T01:09:00.000-05:00Hey Shaun, A very relevant post. I agree that the ...Hey Shaun, <BR/><BR/>A very relevant post. I agree that the success of a church is directly proportional to the tenor of the preaching within it. <BR/><BR/>My current thinking is that it is a great folly to allow inexperienced or even educated lay persons to preach. It is inherently destructive to the momentum of a church to have "half thoughts or partial directions" presented from the pulpit. Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14806296876204113875noreply@blogger.com