I do believe there are times that we should shout even when we are preaching and teaching the Word ...
but after this Tuesday ... when I attended the funeral of a friend who passed of heart disease at age 34 and has OP roots ...
I must confess that one of the preachers who eulogized him ... must have yelled for about 7-10 minutes straight ... preaching to the unsaved in the crowd and remarking on the salvation of the deceased ... made me leave my seat ... and walk outside for a break.
I've NEVER heard anyone say they got saved at a funeral.
I haven't really ever heard that either... but my ex did pray after my father's funeral...well after the dinner. He wouldn't eat, just kept crying. He was backslidden and he sobbed through the whole funeral. One of the preachers referred to who was going to carry on the torch so to speak... I thought I was going to have to pick him up off the ground.
I have seen funerals though where they flat just had church..shouting, dancing and all. I never did understand that exactly. I did feel a beautiful spirit at my dad's, and others, but to have a hoe down??
I haven't really ever heard that either... but my ex did pray after my father's funeral...well after the dinner. He wouldn't eat, just kept crying. He was backslidden and he sobbed through the whole funeral. One of the preachers referred to who was going to carry on the torch so to speak... I thought I was going to have to pick him up off the ground.
I have seen funerals though where they flat just had church..shouting, dancing and all. I never did understand that exactly. I did feel a beautiful spirit at my dad's, and others, but to have a hoe down??
Facing death, even someone else's passing, can bring out the best or the worst in a person.
I figure, if you don't have a message that ministers to people in the time of their greatest need then you probably don't really have a message at all.
Facing death, even someone else's passing, can bring out the best or the worst in a person.
I figure, if you don't have a message that ministers to people in the time of their greatest need then you probably don't really have a message at all.
ouch
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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