This is full of awesome. Please tell me what to do!
Just another nutball….(sigh)
As far as what you need to do…
1. Rent a boat
2. Pick up this bone-head by the nap of his neck.
3 Go to the nearest deep water……
Pollution.
I made it a minute and a half and the only words that came to mind involved bags, holes, and donkeys, so I think I’ll leave my comment at that and let others deconstruct it. Have fun! ๐
While I do believe the man compared Scripture with Scripture, and proved a point, as is the case with many young fundamentalist preachers, his egotistical delivery was sickening. Also, it is not for a pastor to get into a church member’s personal life, and pull those passages of Scripture as a reason why he can. A pastor’s job, by definition, is to feed the flock of God, not to beat the flock, as many pastors are so apt to do these days. Also, there are so many more types of people who have the rule over us, and watch for our souls, not just limited to pastors
I do believe the man compared Scripture with Scripture, and proved a point
I think the only point he proved was that he’s ignorant of the original languages.
Bingo!!!!
I thought the KJV was the original language… ๐
He should’ve at least looked up a few words in Strong’s or something.
Ha! He gives an ill-prepared “defense” to his statements and then sarcastically cuts them down. Isn’t that schizophrenia?
For the record, he’s not “new” at this. He’s been an evangelist for some time, and before that he was a pastor.
I visited his church (in a double-wide trailer) in the metropolis of Brooksville, Florida. Such class. Some things never changed.
Could’ve fooled me. No wonder his church never grew out of a double-wide. It doesn’t strike me that people would flock to hear him.
BULL GIPP!
Another evangelist there to straighten out the pew dwellers, there to make sure they properly reverence the M-O-g. (at least he’s honest about his fleeting influence… he’ll be gone tomorrow, off to straighten out another congregation and stroke another pastor’s ego)
It’s amazing how he strings together the verses about leaders (plural) and applies it to the (singular) pastor. It is amazing how he takes it out of the context that we are to submit to one another in love and makes it about submittting to the will and commands of the local deity. (pssst, that’s what they call a CULT btw.)
This type of preaching is about the power in the pulpit and making sure the congregation is “doing” church correctly. Works sanctification and man worship.
BULL GIPP! ๐ก
Error like this just irks me to no end. He is preaching as if Hebrews was written at some Messianic Jewish denominational convention and the writer is addressing the delegation to submit to the pastors over their individual congregations.
Your point about the audience of Hebrews is right on.
Also I love how he goes on and on about “if its in the Bible…we should do it.”
Should we do other things in the Bible like stoning your children if they disobey Duet. 21:18-21, drinking strong drink duet 14:26, having all things in common socialist style Acts 2:44?
I look forward to those messages from the trailer park. Context and proper exigesis just ruins those fundy power plays.
“I look forward to those messages from the trailer park.”
Might I recommend this for Comment Of The Day?
The visiting fundy pastor/evangelist preaches 1 ManOGawd sermon and 1 sermon that would get him kicked out of his home church. It’s a fundy rule.
Perhaps he knows what that has to do with Hebrews 13, but I sure don’t.
An oppressed, unfed congregation cries “Amen” out of compulsion.
Okay, I cut that off half way through (if I was sitting in this service, that would have been the time when I’d tune him out and start my grocery list).
I can say 1,000 things about this, but I’ll just sum it up in one word.
WRONG!
What an arrogant jerk!!
Okay let me get this straight,
Preachers should bodly proclaim the word and then after they have offended everyone they should quickly exit town…
On a stagecoach
(i guess that’s one way to get around tsa screenings)
With his un-taxed love offering.
Nope, on a rail. You don’t want to get tar and feathers all over the nice clean coach. ๐
I couldn’t hear – my dog Sugar howled every time she hears him speak. That should tell you everything you need to know about it.
You have a smart dog
I love the woman amening at 0:56
It’s almost a sarcastic amen, like “amen, you won’t tell me what to do, but noone else will know I mean that”.
I heard that too and thought the same thing. She was probably the only one that said amen by the prompting of the Spirit and not the flesh. Hilarious!
The sad thing is – people will go away from that “convicted” and “determined to get right” and tell others about how they heard some “hard preachin'” and they will never see Jesus love for them, regardless of their stupid outward actions.
I’ve come across IFBers who actually PREFER “hard preaching” over preaching of substance. Now that is just sad. ๐
They are addicted to Emotional/Spiritual and Mental manipulation. They have to have their “fix” otherwise it just isn’t Church for them. ๐
Hard preaching is a fundy’s personal brand of heroin.
Never heard it put that way, but you’re dead on.
And just as distructive
Oh yeah, I was one of those. I can think of one particular preacher in chapel at Fundy U that I couldn’t stand; I thought he was so boring. Later, I heard the same man preach similar messages in my (current) church and I couldn’t get enough. His preaching hadn’t changed- my preference for showmanship over exegesis had done a complete 180.
Me too Darren! I used to love the IFB evangelist style preaching for years. But it took a long time for me to realize that it really had very little impact on my life. It was like drinking a bottle of Jolt cola or something. It gets you excited and “on fire” for a little while but since there was no substance it just didn’t last. I think someone might have mentioned it recently on SFL but it is actually this type of preaching that is tickling to the ears. I’ll take a “boring” exegetical sermon where I’m actually fed over this stuff any time.
Context doesn’t matter. The Lord laid it on his heart, so now this is the new context. This is how it applies to you right now. He’s God’s man. You don’t question God’s man. God brought you to this service for a reason. To hear this message and learn something from it. If you don’t like it, well, it sounds like you have a problem with authority. ๐ก
About 5 minutes into that sermon and I would have realized that God indeed did put me there for a purpose… to get my grocery list done, jot down reminders of things I needed to get done, plan a menu for the week, and make sure I had everyone on my Christmas card list.
All the while looking like I was taking detailed notes on that ridiculous “sermon”.
I probably would have been taking notes, and by notes I mean doing an analysis and deconstruction of the sermon’s theology, logic, etc. I got lots of practice in critical thinking and analysis in chapel at Fundy U. ๐ That or I would have been reading the Bible.
the last time I heard a fundie preacher like this I drew some very funny pictures of him.
Please post some of them here.
What would proper exegesis of this verse mean? How much “authority” does a pastor have – over the church as well as over me individually? If exegesis was proper, what does a person not submitting to a pastoral authority act like?
It’s true that believers are to be subject to elders. Note that the writer of Hebrews speaks in the plural. You are not to obey *him* that has the rule over you, but *they* that have rule over you: a plurality of elders who, themselves, are subject to each other and also can have charges and claims brought against them by even the least member of christendom, before representatives of the church.
Furthermore, we are cautioned by the writer of Hebrews to consider “the end of their conversation,” an odd admonition, for the writer is speaking as though these men were dead. Perhaps some elders had died peaceful and righteous deaths, and the writer is reminding the readers that such an exit vindicates a godly life, and that godly life should be imitated. Or perhaps he is offering a test strip to the reader: take seriously only those teachers who have died well in the faith.
Either way, Fundamentalism fails this test, for its ministers live lives of secrets and corruption, and you cannot find a brave man in the bunch. Lester Roloff died like a demented clown, killing all those aboard his plane with him.
Okay, Darrell, I know you posted two posts yesterday, but how it usually works is that you usually post something while I’m drinking my coffee and having breakfast, then I comment and then get ready for work. I know its Saturday, but hairstylists work on Saturdays so it’s like a regular day for me.
If I sound demanding and spoiled, it’s your fault… yeah. ๐
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Now we know who is REALLY to blame for all the bad haircuts walking around whatever part of the south Natalie is from.
Rob, don’t forget your appointment is at 1 today. ๐
I need to reschedule for a day when Darrell has posted early and you’ve commented before work.
*shove* ๐
I got my haircut on Saturday. It wasn’t with Natalie, but if it was I would be sportin’ a baptist right now
This is the way cultists preach.
“love your enemies”
Yeah. Fundies are good at that, right?
It took me so long to see what was wrong because most of the IFB churches I was in DID use the right words – like “love your enemies” and “don’t follow men; follow God” and “God’s Word is the basis for our beliefs.” I BELIEVED them. But when I started comparing what they SAID with how they actually LIVED, I saw the disconnect. (Plus there’s always the wackos who seem to speak out of both sides of their mouth: saying “love” one minute yet preaching judgment and sarcasm and, yes, hatred the next.
Yes, PW, the double-speak they use does get confusing. Fundies still use it to try to convince me they are not the way I am portraying them. They are conditioned to ignore obvious facts and find comfort in their MOG’s words.
Oh a fundies’ love will just make you all warm inside….like a bad fever.
Their enemies don’t hate then. Just their friends.
Oh.my.word.
Knives in my eyes at about 3:00 …shaking.
His belittling and sarcasm.
Condemnation and guilt.
How is this in any possible way edification?
I’m vaklempt.
I rarely watch these video clips that Darrell posts. They’re still too damaging to me.
I went to your website last Sunday morning and read the comment that says “God is crazy about you!” I used it in my sermon on Sunday.
Its truth! Can’t hear it enough!
Your website/blog is one of the best places on the internet. Almost every post makes me cry because of how wonderful Jesus is.
Oh my gosh, IAHB! I just checked out your website. It makes me want to giggle and hug someone! Love it!
You all are such kind amazing hearts. The blog is just the broken journey…from a broken girl who has an amazing, gracious, loving Papa. Your words made me cry ( in a good way) thank you.
Would that they were as passionate about what God tells church leaders how to live.
I heard one once, but since most ManOGawds are self-approved and immune to criticism, it doesn’t do any good. It falls on deaf ears.
Sadly “sermons” like this are what I subjected myself to for well over 20 years. At least once a month there was some version of this sermon, usually with some straw man built up and tore down in the span of about 30 minutes. My mog was especially fond of the “I’m called and you’re not – nyah nyah nyah” angle. This kind of preaching makes me want to just vomit.
I sometimes wonder if Fundie preachers realize that there are pastors out there who don’t spend 85% of their preaching time
1. Begging people to come to church
2. Demanding Respect
3. Venerating the KJV
4. Ranting about clothing/hair.
5. Generally lauding the good ole days.
6. Telling “jokes” about their wives or women in general.
You take these things away and they’d have nothing to talk about.
Sure they do. They just call them liberal compromisers. They might even call them wolves in sheep’s clothing. “Those” pastors are too soft and won’t name sin.
Don’t forget guilt-tripping people if they don’t tithe or go doorknocking!
Definitely! As one who is painfully shy, I had to give up the door-knocking thing or go insane… so I became the lowest of the low, both in my mind, and in the eyes of my fellow fundy church members. It was routine for me to be talking with a staff member, a church member would come up, greet the staff member, shake his hand, and walk off, never even acknowledging my existence.
After enough of this, depression set in — would I go through the rest of my life without have a friend?
But, God be praised, He brought me out of that environment!
My fundie mom doesn’t think it’s a real sermon unless the pastor mentions sin.
Your mum would hate me. I preached this morning (brethren assembly, any man is allowed to share) on our perfect nature in Christ, that no sin will condemn us, and that our only real motivation for not sinning is the fact that we are dead and Jesus is in us.
We don’t even need to fight against sin. We are dead to it. Jesus is victorious. When we don’t believe this, that’s when we sin.
@exifb- we are dead to sin, but sin wars against us (1 peter 2:11). the bible assumes that we are striving against it (Heb 12:4)and commands us to abstain from it (1 peter 2:11). in all of our vigorous activities both positive (the “putting on” part of the christian life) and negative (the “putting off” part of the christian life), “it is god who works” in us “to will and to work for His good pleasure” (cf eph 4: 17-32 with phil 2: 12-13).
The Greek word for obey in Hebrews 13:17 is not “hupakoe” which means to hearken submissively but it is “peitho” which means to pursuade, or to be pursuaded of the truth or falsness of something by arguement. The argument and context of Hebrews is for the Jews to throw off the OT customs because the OT law had fullfilled it’s purpose. It was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Paul was trying to lighten their burden. No where does it imply complete submission to a pastor without question. It implys taking off the burden of the law. So not only are pastors wrong to use this verse to justify their man-made standards but this pastor is wrong to criticize those who check the scriptures to see if the pastor is right.
Bravo! Bravo! *standing O*
Well said! Very Well Said!
WIN
I’m going to quote what someone said before…
Like like like and if that was on Facebook, I’d like it, then dislike it, so that I could like it again.
I am a Baptist by intellectual assent, and one of the things which is characteristic of Baptist churches is the notion of the priesthood of all believers. I struggle to see anyone calling themselves a baptist and then lauding it over other believers, when there is no scriptural justification for such behaviour.
Fundies don’t believe in the Priesthood of every believer… They believe in a Caste system that exalts the M-O-g to the top of the pyramid. People are sheep in the minds of the Fundy leadership and they act as “shepherds” over their flocks… and the people have been programmed to accept their roll as mindless sheep. Voila’ Americanized Christiaity.
You are right, it doesn’t make sense, but little of fundyland does make sense.
I think ManOGawds justify the selective application by declaring dissenters as living in sin, their priesthead revoked.
This verse is so often used by MOGs to blugeon the sheep with. A correct understanding of this verse would set many free.
Stop it, George!
I was responding to Jason B’s expanation of Hebrews 13:17
Less than a minute and I’m done …
Nowhere do I read about undershepherds “ruling” over us. Leading, encouraging, teaching … yes.
One of the best descriptions of the role of pastor I’ve ever read is under Pioneer Theology (go look that one up sometime). In that, the clergy is the Cook who serves up what the Buffalo Hunter (Holy Spirit) provides.
Ruling seems to be all these guys ever want to do. I’m glad my pastor is a friend and a very humble man.
A pastor who views his pastorship as a position of authority and power will abuse it and the people under him. If it is viewed as a position of responsibility and servanthood (stewardship), no abuse will happen.
Well, at least very little abuse.
I know I sound like a broken record but Lord Acton’s Axiom is so relative to Fundie leadership:
รขโฌลI cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or certainty of corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.รขโฌย
Christ showed us the perfect example in John 13 before he was put to death, as he spoke to His disciples. He told them to “love one another, as I have loved you.” He just showed them how to love by washing their feet earlier in the chapter and then immediately after that Peter betrays Him, and we all know that He forgave Peter and later allowed Peter to be used at Pentecost to start the Church Age.
I wonder how much money the pastor slipped the evangelist to preach that sermon.
Or perhaps he is hoping for a “doktrat” from this church’s Bible Kawledge/Basement Institute.
In fact, that is the mark of a successful evangelist, one who can stroke the pastors ego and make it look like the pew dwelling sheeple are not loving him enough. That is part of the evangelists mission is to preach the obligatory sermon on why the M-O-g is to be worshipped (of course couched in terms of reverence and worthy of his hire so it doesn’t look like idolatry) and of course it must be made to look like it is because the audience is in sin for not being loving enough or paying himn enough, or the audience has pride in their hearts. you know guilt the audience into giving the M-O-g a pay raise or at least slip him an extra 20-50-100+ in the handshake as you tell him how much you love him on the way out the door.
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He’s the kind of Preacher that I would lead my family to get up and walk out of the service mid-sentence; our time would be better spent at Dairy Queen.
“Isn’t it terrible that someone who is suppose to care about you, actually does.”
This can happen, but rarely does. My observation is that this happens with a close knit group that surrounds the pastor and his family. Once this group is formed, others are SOL. Start another church, buy another ManOGawd.
Hebrews is not written to us. Plain and simple. Books to us are Romans to Philemon. Hebrews is for the tribulation crowd. Makes sense and I have Pastor Paulson from scatteredchristians.org to thank for understanding it.
This guy in the video is pouring on the guilt… I feel sorry for his wife and kids.
Hebrews is not written to us, and if we take that logic, either is Romans and Philemon. I think II Timothy 3:16-17 would contradict that logic though.
Oh, and it’s not even about obedience. It doesn’t say anything about obeying them. They had been going through great persecution and the leaders who stood on their faith were worthy of their imitation. He said to “remember your leaders… imitate their faith.” Their faith was that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” If there is an obedience here, it is obedience to their doctrine, not their whims. How much love and grace of God did anyone hear in this “sermon”?
Thank God, He also wrote, “Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings,” (v. 9 ESV) Here’s hoping someone had the sense to read ahead and was not led away by this man’s diverse and strange teachings. ๐ฟ
I just read these two quotes from a Pastor’s Twitter (2 separate tweets – also, a Pastor having a Twitter is not the issue):
“Cries of legalism are often a coverup for compromise.”
“Having Biblical convictions, Biblical standards, or conservative preferences does not make someone a legalist.”
They’re trying to turn everything around….
…but if he’s like all other “true” IFBs, none of those standards come from the Bible, and he forces his preferences on his congregation, so his point is moot. He’s still a legalist.
There’s nothing wrong with having standards. It’s what you do with those standards that matter. You can either keep them privately between you and God, or publicly bind them upon other people.
The thing is….they sugarcoat their standards with the Bible, like “It’s fine by me if you think women can wear pants; I’ll just follow God.” What do you say to that?
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This is full of awesome. Please tell me what to do!
Just another nutball….(sigh)
As far as what you need to do…
1. Rent a boat
2. Pick up this bone-head by the nap of his neck.
3 Go to the nearest deep water……
Pollution.
I made it a minute and a half and the only words that came to mind involved bags, holes, and donkeys, so I think I’ll leave my comment at that and let others deconstruct it. Have fun! ๐
While I do believe the man compared Scripture with Scripture, and proved a point, as is the case with many young fundamentalist preachers, his egotistical delivery was sickening. Also, it is not for a pastor to get into a church member’s personal life, and pull those passages of Scripture as a reason why he can. A pastor’s job, by definition, is to feed the flock of God, not to beat the flock, as many pastors are so apt to do these days. Also, there are so many more types of people who have the rule over us, and watch for our souls, not just limited to pastors
I think the only point he proved was that he’s ignorant of the original languages.
Bingo!!!!
I thought the KJV was the original language… ๐
He should’ve at least looked up a few words in Strong’s or something.
Ha! He gives an ill-prepared “defense” to his statements and then sarcastically cuts them down. Isn’t that schizophrenia?
For the record, he’s not “new” at this. He’s been an evangelist for some time, and before that he was a pastor.
I visited his church (in a double-wide trailer) in the metropolis of Brooksville, Florida. Such class. Some things never changed.
Could’ve fooled me. No wonder his church never grew out of a double-wide. It doesn’t strike me that people would flock to hear him.
BULL GIPP!
Another evangelist there to straighten out the pew dwellers, there to make sure they properly reverence the M-O-g. (at least he’s honest about his fleeting influence… he’ll be gone tomorrow, off to straighten out another congregation and stroke another pastor’s ego)
It’s amazing how he strings together the verses about leaders (plural) and applies it to the (singular) pastor. It is amazing how he takes it out of the context that we are to submit to one another in love and makes it about submittting to the will and commands of the local deity. (pssst, that’s what they call a CULT btw.)
This type of preaching is about the power in the pulpit and making sure the congregation is “doing” church correctly. Works sanctification and man worship.
BULL GIPP! ๐ก
Error like this just irks me to no end. He is preaching as if Hebrews was written at some Messianic Jewish denominational convention and the writer is addressing the delegation to submit to the pastors over their individual congregations.
Your point about the audience of Hebrews is right on.
Also I love how he goes on and on about “if its in the Bible…we should do it.”
Should we do other things in the Bible like stoning your children if they disobey Duet. 21:18-21, drinking strong drink duet 14:26, having all things in common socialist style Acts 2:44?
I look forward to those messages from the trailer park. Context and proper exigesis just ruins those fundy power plays.
“I look forward to those messages from the trailer park.”
Might I recommend this for Comment Of The Day?
The visiting fundy pastor/evangelist preaches 1 ManOGawd sermon and 1 sermon that would get him kicked out of his home church. It’s a fundy rule.
Perhaps he knows what that has to do with Hebrews 13, but I sure don’t.
An oppressed, unfed congregation cries “Amen” out of compulsion.
http://www.TruthStandsScrutiny.com
Okay, I cut that off half way through (if I was sitting in this service, that would have been the time when I’d tune him out and start my grocery list).
I can say 1,000 things about this, but I’ll just sum it up in one word.
WRONG!
What an arrogant jerk!!
Okay let me get this straight,
Preachers should bodly proclaim the word and then after they have offended everyone they should quickly exit town…
On a stagecoach
(i guess that’s one way to get around tsa screenings)
With his un-taxed love offering.
Nope, on a rail. You don’t want to get tar and feathers all over the nice clean coach. ๐
I couldn’t hear – my dog Sugar howled every time she hears him speak. That should tell you everything you need to know about it.
You have a smart dog
I love the woman amening at 0:56
It’s almost a sarcastic amen, like “amen, you won’t tell me what to do, but noone else will know I mean that”.
I heard that too and thought the same thing. She was probably the only one that said amen by the prompting of the Spirit and not the flesh. Hilarious!
The sad thing is – people will go away from that “convicted” and “determined to get right” and tell others about how they heard some “hard preachin'” and they will never see Jesus love for them, regardless of their stupid outward actions.
I’ve come across IFBers who actually PREFER “hard preaching” over preaching of substance. Now that is just sad. ๐
They are addicted to Emotional/Spiritual and Mental manipulation. They have to have their “fix” otherwise it just isn’t Church for them. ๐
Hard preaching is a fundy’s personal brand of heroin.
Never heard it put that way, but you’re dead on.
And just as distructive
Oh yeah, I was one of those. I can think of one particular preacher in chapel at Fundy U that I couldn’t stand; I thought he was so boring. Later, I heard the same man preach similar messages in my (current) church and I couldn’t get enough. His preaching hadn’t changed- my preference for showmanship over exegesis had done a complete 180.
Me too Darren! I used to love the IFB evangelist style preaching for years. But it took a long time for me to realize that it really had very little impact on my life. It was like drinking a bottle of Jolt cola or something. It gets you excited and “on fire” for a little while but since there was no substance it just didn’t last. I think someone might have mentioned it recently on SFL but it is actually this type of preaching that is tickling to the ears. I’ll take a “boring” exegetical sermon where I’m actually fed over this stuff any time.
Stan, great analogy. It is so true. ๐
There is a facebook group for these weirdos… http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=178198081880
I had a friend that joined this group.
Context doesn’t matter. The Lord laid it on his heart, so now this is the new context. This is how it applies to you right now. He’s God’s man. You don’t question God’s man. God brought you to this service for a reason. To hear this message and learn something from it. If you don’t like it, well, it sounds like you have a problem with authority. ๐ก
About 5 minutes into that sermon and I would have realized that God indeed did put me there for a purpose… to get my grocery list done, jot down reminders of things I needed to get done, plan a menu for the week, and make sure I had everyone on my Christmas card list.
All the while looking like I was taking detailed notes on that ridiculous “sermon”.
I probably would have been taking notes, and by notes I mean doing an analysis and deconstruction of the sermon’s theology, logic, etc. I got lots of practice in critical thinking and analysis in chapel at Fundy U. ๐ That or I would have been reading the Bible.
the last time I heard a fundie preacher like this I drew some very funny pictures of him.
Please post some of them here.
What would proper exegesis of this verse mean? How much “authority” does a pastor have – over the church as well as over me individually? If exegesis was proper, what does a person not submitting to a pastoral authority act like?
It’s true that believers are to be subject to elders. Note that the writer of Hebrews speaks in the plural. You are not to obey *him* that has the rule over you, but *they* that have rule over you: a plurality of elders who, themselves, are subject to each other and also can have charges and claims brought against them by even the least member of christendom, before representatives of the church.
Furthermore, we are cautioned by the writer of Hebrews to consider “the end of their conversation,” an odd admonition, for the writer is speaking as though these men were dead. Perhaps some elders had died peaceful and righteous deaths, and the writer is reminding the readers that such an exit vindicates a godly life, and that godly life should be imitated. Or perhaps he is offering a test strip to the reader: take seriously only those teachers who have died well in the faith.
Either way, Fundamentalism fails this test, for its ministers live lives of secrets and corruption, and you cannot find a brave man in the bunch. Lester Roloff died like a demented clown, killing all those aboard his plane with him.
Okay, Darrell, I know you posted two posts yesterday, but how it usually works is that you usually post something while I’m drinking my coffee and having breakfast, then I comment and then get ready for work. I know its Saturday, but hairstylists work on Saturdays so it’s like a regular day for me.
If I sound demanding and spoiled, it’s your fault… yeah. ๐
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Now we know who is REALLY to blame for all the bad haircuts walking around whatever part of the south Natalie is from.
Rob, don’t forget your appointment is at 1 today. ๐
I need to reschedule for a day when Darrell has posted early and you’ve commented before work.
*shove* ๐
I got my haircut on Saturday. It wasn’t with Natalie, but if it was I would be sportin’ a baptist right now
This is the way cultists preach.
“love your enemies”
Yeah. Fundies are good at that, right?
It took me so long to see what was wrong because most of the IFB churches I was in DID use the right words – like “love your enemies” and “don’t follow men; follow God” and “God’s Word is the basis for our beliefs.” I BELIEVED them. But when I started comparing what they SAID with how they actually LIVED, I saw the disconnect. (Plus there’s always the wackos who seem to speak out of both sides of their mouth: saying “love” one minute yet preaching judgment and sarcasm and, yes, hatred the next.
Yes, PW, the double-speak they use does get confusing. Fundies still use it to try to convince me they are not the way I am portraying them. They are conditioned to ignore obvious facts and find comfort in their MOG’s words.
Oh a fundies’ love will just make you all warm inside….like a bad fever.
Their enemies don’t hate then. Just their friends.
Oh.my.word.
Knives in my eyes at about 3:00 …shaking.
His belittling and sarcasm.
Condemnation and guilt.
How is this in any possible way edification?
I’m vaklempt.
I rarely watch these video clips that Darrell posts. They’re still too damaging to me.
I went to your website last Sunday morning and read the comment that says “God is crazy about you!” I used it in my sermon on Sunday.
Its truth! Can’t hear it enough!
Your website/blog is one of the best places on the internet. Almost every post makes me cry because of how wonderful Jesus is.
Oh my gosh, IAHB! I just checked out your website. It makes me want to giggle and hug someone! Love it!
You all are such kind amazing hearts. The blog is just the broken journey…from a broken girl who has an amazing, gracious, loving Papa. Your words made me cry ( in a good way) thank you.
Would that they were as passionate about what God tells church leaders how to live.
I heard one once, but since most ManOGawds are self-approved and immune to criticism, it doesn’t do any good. It falls on deaf ears.
Sadly “sermons” like this are what I subjected myself to for well over 20 years. At least once a month there was some version of this sermon, usually with some straw man built up and tore down in the span of about 30 minutes. My mog was especially fond of the “I’m called and you’re not – nyah nyah nyah” angle. This kind of preaching makes me want to just vomit.
I sometimes wonder if Fundie preachers realize that there are pastors out there who don’t spend 85% of their preaching time
1. Begging people to come to church
2. Demanding Respect
3. Venerating the KJV
4. Ranting about clothing/hair.
5. Generally lauding the good ole days.
6. Telling “jokes” about their wives or women in general.
You take these things away and they’d have nothing to talk about.
Sure they do. They just call them liberal compromisers. They might even call them wolves in sheep’s clothing. “Those” pastors are too soft and won’t name sin.
Don’t forget guilt-tripping people if they don’t tithe or go doorknocking!
Definitely! As one who is painfully shy, I had to give up the door-knocking thing or go insane… so I became the lowest of the low, both in my mind, and in the eyes of my fellow fundy church members. It was routine for me to be talking with a staff member, a church member would come up, greet the staff member, shake his hand, and walk off, never even acknowledging my existence.
After enough of this, depression set in — would I go through the rest of my life without have a friend?
But, God be praised, He brought me out of that environment!
My fundie mom doesn’t think it’s a real sermon unless the pastor mentions sin.
Your mum would hate me. I preached this morning (brethren assembly, any man is allowed to share) on our perfect nature in Christ, that no sin will condemn us, and that our only real motivation for not sinning is the fact that we are dead and Jesus is in us.
We don’t even need to fight against sin. We are dead to it. Jesus is victorious. When we don’t believe this, that’s when we sin.
@exifb- we are dead to sin, but sin wars against us (1 peter 2:11). the bible assumes that we are striving against it (Heb 12:4)and commands us to abstain from it (1 peter 2:11). in all of our vigorous activities both positive (the “putting on” part of the christian life) and negative (the “putting off” part of the christian life), “it is god who works” in us “to will and to work for His good pleasure” (cf eph 4: 17-32 with phil 2: 12-13).
The Greek word for obey in Hebrews 13:17 is not “hupakoe” which means to hearken submissively but it is “peitho” which means to pursuade, or to be pursuaded of the truth or falsness of something by arguement. The argument and context of Hebrews is for the Jews to throw off the OT customs because the OT law had fullfilled it’s purpose. It was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Paul was trying to lighten their burden. No where does it imply complete submission to a pastor without question. It implys taking off the burden of the law. So not only are pastors wrong to use this verse to justify their man-made standards but this pastor is wrong to criticize those who check the scriptures to see if the pastor is right.
Bravo! Bravo! *standing O*
Well said! Very Well Said!
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I’m going to quote what someone said before…
Like like like and if that was on Facebook, I’d like it, then dislike it, so that I could like it again.
I am a Baptist by intellectual assent, and one of the things which is characteristic of Baptist churches is the notion of the priesthood of all believers. I struggle to see anyone calling themselves a baptist and then lauding it over other believers, when there is no scriptural justification for such behaviour.
Fundies don’t believe in the Priesthood of every believer… They believe in a Caste system that exalts the M-O-g to the top of the pyramid. People are sheep in the minds of the Fundy leadership and they act as “shepherds” over their flocks… and the people have been programmed to accept their roll as mindless sheep. Voila’ Americanized Christiaity.
You are right, it doesn’t make sense, but little of fundyland does make sense.
I think ManOGawds justify the selective application by declaring dissenters as living in sin, their priesthead revoked.
This verse is so often used by MOGs to blugeon the sheep with. A correct understanding of this verse would set many free.
Stop it, George!
I was responding to Jason B’s expanation of Hebrews 13:17
Less than a minute and I’m done …
Nowhere do I read about undershepherds “ruling” over us. Leading, encouraging, teaching … yes.
One of the best descriptions of the role of pastor I’ve ever read is under Pioneer Theology (go look that one up sometime). In that, the clergy is the Cook who serves up what the Buffalo Hunter (Holy Spirit) provides.
Ruling seems to be all these guys ever want to do. I’m glad my pastor is a friend and a very humble man.
A pastor who views his pastorship as a position of authority and power will abuse it and the people under him. If it is viewed as a position of responsibility and servanthood (stewardship), no abuse will happen.
Well, at least very little abuse.
I know I sound like a broken record but Lord Acton’s Axiom is so relative to Fundie leadership:
http://persifler.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/corruption-is-directly-proportional-to-the-level-of-control-that-is-available/
Christ showed us the perfect example in John 13 before he was put to death, as he spoke to His disciples. He told them to “love one another, as I have loved you.” He just showed them how to love by washing their feet earlier in the chapter and then immediately after that Peter betrays Him, and we all know that He forgave Peter and later allowed Peter to be used at Pentecost to start the Church Age.
I wonder how much money the pastor slipped the evangelist to preach that sermon.
Or perhaps he is hoping for a “doktrat” from this church’s Bible Kawledge/Basement Institute.
Oh the (under reported tax-free)”Luv offering” will be substantial. http://persifler.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/marjoe-6/
In fact, that is the mark of a successful evangelist, one who can stroke the pastors ego and make it look like the pew dwelling sheeple are not loving him enough. That is part of the evangelists mission is to preach the obligatory sermon on why the M-O-g is to be worshipped (of course couched in terms of reverence and worthy of his hire so it doesn’t look like idolatry) and of course it must be made to look like it is because the audience is in sin for not being loving enough or paying himn enough, or the audience has pride in their hearts. you know guilt the audience into giving the M-O-g a pay raise or at least slip him an extra 20-50-100+ in the handshake as you tell him how much you love him on the way out the door.
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He’s the kind of Preacher that I would lead my family to get up and walk out of the service mid-sentence; our time would be better spent at Dairy Queen.
“Isn’t it terrible that someone who is suppose to care about you, actually does.”
This can happen, but rarely does. My observation is that this happens with a close knit group that surrounds the pastor and his family. Once this group is formed, others are SOL. Start another church, buy another ManOGawd.
Hebrews is not written to us. Plain and simple. Books to us are Romans to Philemon. Hebrews is for the tribulation crowd. Makes sense and I have Pastor Paulson from scatteredchristians.org to thank for understanding it.
This guy in the video is pouring on the guilt… I feel sorry for his wife and kids.
Hebrews is not written to us, and if we take that logic, either is Romans and Philemon. I think II Timothy 3:16-17 would contradict that logic though.
Oh, and it’s not even about obedience. It doesn’t say anything about obeying them. They had been going through great persecution and the leaders who stood on their faith were worthy of their imitation. He said to “remember your leaders… imitate their faith.” Their faith was that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” If there is an obedience here, it is obedience to their doctrine, not their whims. How much love and grace of God did anyone hear in this “sermon”?
Thank God, He also wrote, “Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings,” (v. 9 ESV) Here’s hoping someone had the sense to read ahead and was not led away by this man’s diverse and strange teachings. ๐ฟ
I just read these two quotes from a Pastor’s Twitter (2 separate tweets – also, a Pastor having a Twitter is not the issue):
“Cries of legalism are often a coverup for compromise.”
“Having Biblical convictions, Biblical standards, or conservative preferences does not make someone a legalist.”
They’re trying to turn everything around….
…but if he’s like all other “true” IFBs, none of those standards come from the Bible, and he forces his preferences on his congregation, so his point is moot. He’s still a legalist.
There’s nothing wrong with having standards. It’s what you do with those standards that matter. You can either keep them privately between you and God, or publicly bind them upon other people.
The thing is….they sugarcoat their standards with the Bible, like “It’s fine by me if you think women can wear pants; I’ll just follow God.” What do you say to that?