I have a question about black preaching style. Some blacks don't like what is traditionally thought of as a "black" preaching style. They say that you can't preach expository sermons with that style of preaching. I don't buy that. Look at Tony Evans.

What would you say to someone who objected to using a "black" style of preaching? How would you defend that style of preaching biblically? What about whites who have a black preaching style? Just some questions.

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Brady and Bynum come from the same holiness tradition; and sadly have both flirted with the same Prosperity Gospel heresy. too. I wasn't referring to the content of Brady's messages, but rather how remarkably stylized they are. She has borrowed more of the Black preaching sound than any other white preacher I can think of (more tonality than Paula White or Rod Parsley, I think). I can't say whether it's only an affectation (I'm learning to let Jesus judge these matters), but her preaching has a riff.
who invented this sound where did it come from///////
what are u talking about black sound...this is unbelieviable---the entire world knows the african slave had their tongues cut out and were not allowed to teach read etc...in native styles---so where did this style of black preaching you speak of come from...???

who invented which black started i dare say nat turner...
Read a little of The Souls of Black Folks. Du Bois comments directly on the continuum from Africa to the Black American pulpit.

http://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topics/historical-portraits-of-s...
I didn't know they had gotten into the prosperity gospel very much. Reinhard Bonnke is friends with Kenneth Copeland, but his message is nothing like Copeland's. I try not to practice guilt by association. Jack Hayford has quite a few friends in the word of faith camp, but I think his teaching is solid. Mark Driscoll even mentioned that he liked to listen to Jack Hayford. One thing that I like about Hayford is that he is very practical. I think you can be too practical, but I don't think Hayford is.

As for the prosperity gospel, it's heresy. But it's so rampant in Pentecostal circles that most high-profile Pentecostals at least have friends in the word of faith camp if they don't preach those doctrines themselves.

My parent's were really into the word of faith stuff, so I saw that first hand. It wasn't until I left Pentecostalism that I started to question the stuff that those people taught. There's no doubt about it that Creflo Dollar and Kenneth Copeland are heretics. I probably wouldn't mention them by name in my sermons, but I would preach against those doctrines.
Is there a reason for your new found doctrine (complementarian)?
Yes. When you read the Bible, the restrictions that Paul places on women in ministry is not based on a specific cultural concern. Paul appeals to the creation. He gives the created order as the reason for the restrictions that he places on women in ministry.

In 1 Timothy 2:12 Paul says this:

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Then, so that we know that this is not just a cultural exception Paul goes on to say that it's because of the order of creation:

For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
1 Timothy 2:13-14

This also disproves the argument that male headship was a result of the fall since Paul appeals to the creation, not the fall to support his commendation to the church.
there is no black or white stule of jesus only the roman still
Joseph, you raise an interesting point concerning the influence of musical styles on "black" preaching. Some preachers like Donnie McClurkin and Marvin Sapp started out as gospel artists and are still singing gospel music. On the other hand, some preachers such as Eric Mason and D'hati Lewis are influenced more by hip-hop. I have been influenced by gospel and hip-hop as well as R&B and other styles of music (neo-soul, pop, pop-rock, etc.) I think I can see those musical styles coming through in my preaching.
sad how the black church which can not even define its origins claims to have a voice...
if the church has so much voice and style y are black children the dumbest in school...
cause they dont know their bible...

fakes and dolla and sbc converts preach jesus to poor people and charity to the rich...
they ease the souls of sons of the slave masters...
this sickening...all i state is when day of reckon pence comes all yea jackleg and fakeass preacher better be reach for your books...
What exactly do you mean by a "black preaching style"? Do you mean the term "whooping"?
That's part of it. But as Joseph said, it also has to do with the rhythm of the sermon and the rising crescendo that Joseph also mentioned. Ultimately, I think the stereotype of black preaching is probably unfair since you do have some black preachers who don't have a stereotypically black style of preaching. But then, I think that some in the black community would feel that they have turned their backs on their culture. At the end of the day, it's just not what Americans have come to expect from black preachers to leave off entirely the whooping and all of that.

To make the question a little more pointed, perhaps we should ask the question as to whether certain styles of preaching or certain practices implemented in the sermon distract from the message. I think that it's possible. But I don't think that means that we have to leave those things off completely.

I heard John Piper talk about this at length in a talk that he gave at the Desiring God 2009 Pastor's Conference. It was a biography on George Whitefield. Whitefield had more of a "pentecostal" preaching style. In fact, historically speaking, it seems that this is probably part of where the pentecostal preaching style developed. Piper touches on the question that style raises, no matter what style. Everyone has a preaching style. It may be "black", or country, or grunge, or whatever, but everyone has a style of some kind when it comes to preaching.
I've never been a fan of such whooping. The only person that I enjoyed with it was Bishop Noel Jones. Other than that, I find that people care more about catch-phrases and directing the masses as a choir director, than ministering the Word of GOD. Sadly, I've seen this type of preaching style actually taught in a class!

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