The Year General Conference Heard the "s" word

[Truthseeker]

S= sanctified???

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Originally Posted by ReformedDave

Sincerely, how do we know he was looking for 'something'?

True. Maybe he wasn't.

[timlan2057]

This is the only incident I know so I believe it is "the" one.

It was the 1984 General Conference in (I believe) Anaheim, Ca. I was not there.

The preacher in question was Timothy Creel of Westlake, La.

Right after GC, I was preaching for Robert McGaha in Bernice, La. Robert's father was Homer McGaha, for many years a pastor in Louisiana. His brother, whose first name I do not recall, pastored around Arlington, Texas and maybe still does.

McGaha told me he had heard that Creel used the "s" word in his GC sermon.

I got the tape soon afterward and listened VERY carefully.

He was preaching against television and said something about a "television set" and instead of "set" it sounded like the "s" word. He then quickly corrected himself.

To me, it sounded like nothing more than an unfortunate slip of the tongue - unfortunate because of course it sounded like a profanity but I nowhere near thought it was intentional and even though I'm much more jaded now and never thought Timothy Creel was a preacher of a lot of substance, I still do not think it was anything more than an unintentional slip of the tongue.

I honestly never understood what all the fuss was about.

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Reminds me of a time when I was writing up a call log from when I was working on a technical help desk. I wrote in my journal how I had instructed the user to "shut down" his workstation before opening it up. Well... the "u" and the "i" are right next to each other on the keyboard and when you're going too fast... and don't have time to check what you're typing...

I got railed on for a long time about that one - what with my profession of faith and my solid witness to that point that I did not use any bad language. It happens. Everybody has mixed up words before.

[timlan2057]

Whoops.

One correction for faulty memory.

McGaha wasn't the one who told me.

I was preaching in Hicks, La. - just outside of Leesville sometime after GC and the pastor there at the time, whose name I would have to look up, told me about the situation.

I was preaching for McGaha about a month later. McGaha had the tapes so that Bernice, La. is where I listened to the Creel sermon and drew my conclusions.

[mfblume]

A slip of the tongue is not as bad as what I was told. A preacher who was there told me that the minister was describing times in his past when at a farm and walking through cow manure up to his knees. He allegedly used the "s" word instead.

[Sam]

s = super spiritual
or super sanctified
or super separated

[OnTheFritz]

I guess sometimes "dang" just isn't enough....

[George]

Can't remember the exact year but I was there and heard it personally. He was talking about women and "bird nest" hair-do's. Only a few tapes were sold before they refused to sell anymore. I never heard anything about David Wilkerson being there.

[George]

Originally Posted by DerrickS

I guess sometimes "dang" just isn't enough....