What Do You Expect?
A young man was venting on his frustration with the music industry. Since the passing of MJ and the world wide, world wind, media frinzy that has followed, the one good thing that has come about is people, many for the first time, are paying attention to the discipline, skill, preparation, respect, investment, study, etc. of the overall art of music making and performing; and they are doing it against the contemporary artist (its about time.) More and more people are realizing that T-Pain is not an artist; Soldier boy is not an artist; and whoever is hot this week is not an artist.
Likewise, the African American pulpit has fallen victim to, and is being held hostage by, clown clergy. Individuals that attack the prepared preacher because they are not. Individuals who condemn accreditted education because they lack the education that they are lying about. Individuals, some who are dumb enough to tell you the truth about there lack of preparation saying, "Man of God, I don't study the Bible, I just stand and let the Spirit speak through me." What spirit might that be? It couldn't be the 'Holy Spirit' could it? You know, the author of the Holy Bible who speaks to the church, through Ezra in Ezra 7:10, and the Apostle Paul in 2 Tim. 2:15. These persons 'do not want the congregation' to listen.
If you are a serious preacher, and if you are serious about preaching, take time to write out your sermons and do so with a working knowledge of what you believe (or doctrine as the Holy Bible refers to it). I hope that know one has to die for the African American pew to return to a state where they 'listen' to what they are hearing and are able to discern whether or not its truth or lie; fact or foolishness.
And let me say this very clearly -- there are 'NO' preachers in this contemporary make up of clergy between the ages of 38 and 50 that are comparable to Gardner Taylor, Harry S. Wright, Otis Moss, Jr., {the following are late}: Manuel L. Scott, Sr., C.B.T. Smith, Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr., Fred G. Sampson, Henry Nelson Smith, J.H. Jackson, MLK, Sr., MLK, Jr., Robert Wilson, Miles Jones, and Samuel D. Proctor, just to name a few.
However, I am awhere that when your bottom line is money over ministry, and silver over souls, then I'm not surprised. So, when you hear a sermon from an individual who thinks that screaming makes him an authority, and a word for the mind is inferior to a word for the heart(as if you could separate the two, yikes! We are in trouble), don't be surprised; what do you expect?
Likewise, the African American pulpit has fallen victim to, and is being held hostage by, clown clergy. Individuals that attack the prepared preacher because they are not. Individuals who condemn accreditted education because they lack the education that they are lying about. Individuals, some who are dumb enough to tell you the truth about there lack of preparation saying, "Man of God, I don't study the Bible, I just stand and let the Spirit speak through me." What spirit might that be? It couldn't be the 'Holy Spirit' could it? You know, the author of the Holy Bible who speaks to the church, through Ezra in Ezra 7:10, and the Apostle Paul in 2 Tim. 2:15. These persons 'do not want the congregation' to listen.
If you are a serious preacher, and if you are serious about preaching, take time to write out your sermons and do so with a working knowledge of what you believe (or doctrine as the Holy Bible refers to it). I hope that know one has to die for the African American pew to return to a state where they 'listen' to what they are hearing and are able to discern whether or not its truth or lie; fact or foolishness.
And let me say this very clearly -- there are 'NO' preachers in this contemporary make up of clergy between the ages of 38 and 50 that are comparable to Gardner Taylor, Harry S. Wright, Otis Moss, Jr., {the following are late}: Manuel L. Scott, Sr., C.B.T. Smith, Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr., Fred G. Sampson, Henry Nelson Smith, J.H. Jackson, MLK, Sr., MLK, Jr., Robert Wilson, Miles Jones, and Samuel D. Proctor, just to name a few.
However, I am awhere that when your bottom line is money over ministry, and silver over souls, then I'm not surprised. So, when you hear a sermon from an individual who thinks that screaming makes him an authority, and a word for the mind is inferior to a word for the heart(as if you could separate the two, yikes! We are in trouble), don't be surprised; what do you expect?
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