Pulpit Language

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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 15:33:51 -0400, you wrote:

>But that's just the point.  What if, in Fred Hyde's excellent Spirit of
>Freedom materials, he started saying, "you stupid bunch of drunks, quit your
>drinking"?  Would that be a loving approach?  If not, why condone calling
>homosexuals "fags," and prostitutes "whores"?

Are we once again recommending that ministry ought to be accomplished
on the basis of replication of a particular individuals work?

Sometimes I get the impression that there are people among us who have
a strong hunger for standardization and regulation.

Fred Hyde is Fred Hyde. God made him and directs him, and he preaches
the doctrine of the Apostles, so far as Im aware. 

The other dude is clearly a different character with a different
ministry. STRANGE BUT TRUE: BOTH can be right! 

With God, its not either/or!

And if Bro H. called someone who was a stupid drunk, "a stupid drunk",
I would not be in the front of the line wanting to reprimand him, but
would give the guy the benefit of the doubt that he could manage to
figure out what God wanted from him, either now or later :)

We see jail ministry address convicts as LOOSERS. We see healing
ministry address proud people as SICK. We see ministry to the church
address those who should be children of faith FAITHLESS.

The absurd pretense that has developed in this thread is that anyone
has said anything about makeing face to face, second person comments
of this nature. Virtually NO ONE does that. One can use the "broadcast
nature" of the pulpit ministry to accomplish glancing references and
cut deep within the soul with grace... 

The preacher who is obviously in question does both with great
precision. I know its because God uses him.  We ought all to aspire
for as much, whether in  private life or public ministry.

-mwb