Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoovie
More than anything it's puzzling to me. Why would it be attractive? Certainly not because it achieves any good results... Or does it? Perhaps the conflict is the goal... Sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy perhaps? The man of God speaking the truth against all odds?
I really don't know...
I have heard the analogy of Jesus getting angry in the temple but, that analogy seems to fall short seeing the minister is not Jesus and the congregants are his fellow brothers in Christ.
|
Its a physcological ego trip. As a poster said, generally when someone is preaching angry, it is becuase they are mad someone isn't lining up, or attempting to assert their influence, though mostly it is both. And rarely is there much substance, though I don't have a problem with someone being angry about sin or what sin has done in someones life.
Maybe I'm coming across to critical, but I am under the impression that alot of "pentecostal preaching" is more about antics and mannerisms, than actual substance.
You have the preachers who get all "red in the face".
Those who can't speak a sentance without gasping for a breath or saying "bless God/praise God".
Those who speak into the mic and out of the mic, using voice inflection (a sometimes taught behavior).
And regardless of what is being said the most important trait is VOLUME. VOLUME equals ANOINTING and AUTHORITY therefore, if your not a screamer, your not really "pentecostal".
I was actually told at one time in my life (by a UPC pastor) that I wasn't being preached because my "delivery" wasn't pentecostal enough. I need to work on it. Translation-I'm not animated enough (I rarely move from behind the pulpit) and I don't scream enough (I rarely scream, though I do try to speak loudly, if for no other reason than that sometimes I have been told I'm hard to hear in the back of a church).
So faced with a decision to "play the part" or be sat down. I choose to be me, and was sat down for the better part of 5 years. But God always makes a way, and I've been able to be a blessing to many people and God gives me plenty of ministry oppertunites, simply by being myself.
I guess if I ever get desperate to be an evangelist or conference preacher, I'll start speaking loud and fast and say non-sensical things like "you need a refill of the Holy Ghost." On second thought,
Linear Mode
