Pulpit Language

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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 19:21:18 PST, you wrote:


>>If people are won to our personalities, they will still have to
>>receive and submit to the authority of truth to be saved.
>>
>As far as I know, (I could be wrong) Jesus only called the "so-called"
>leaders of the Jewish religion names. I don't recall him calling sinners
>ugly names.  

Funny, the Apostles refered to whoremongers, liars, talebearers,
abusers of themselves with mankind, drunkards, robbers, thieves, them
who riot in the night..., false prophets, wolves.

Do you remember anyone talking about calling anyone TWINKIE to their
face? But, a twinkie could sit in a congregation and realize that when
the preacher refered to a "twinkie", he was refering to those who did
the SIN that He did... In other words, BULLSEYE. The word finds its
mark.

>He did not say to the woman taken in adultry, "You are an
>adultress."  She knew what she was already. He forgave her, and told her
>to sin no more.  He didn't say to Zaccheus "You are a thief and a robber".  In fact everyone else murmured, saying, "That he (Jesus) was gone to
>be a guest with a man that is a sinner." Luke 19:7.  Zaccheus repented
>of the wrong he had done and corrected it.  I don't think he would have
>done so, if Jesus had torn him down. 

Well, thats not even what is being discussed. I doubt there is any
such notion.

>I'm not saying I believe in letting these people continue in their sins
>without being preached against, but isn't there another, better way of
>doing it??????  There are other ways to make people squirm, like maybe
>the power of God convicting their souls. 

Well, maybe you have a seminar designed for retraining some worn out
preachers who dont know any better than to do these terrible things.

>One more thing, if there was any homosexuals or "whores" there at that
>service do you think they would have come out to the alter and prayed for forgiveness.  
> NO...They would probably be to scared to as they might be
>"executed" (instead of saved)!

You ARE joking.