Boldness (re: pulpit language)

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On Mon, 09 Sep 1996 02:34:45 EDT, you wrote:


>Arnold:  "...we need to be delivered as Pentecostals, you hear me, from
>this ego-Pentecostal stinky better than other people who are
>whoremongers and drunks and drug addicts and fags and queers and
>twinkies..I wanna tell you something we aint better than nobody except
>by the grace of God.  And if the grace of God was withdrawn from us for
>one day we'd be out doing the craziest stuff, you aint got no  idea what
>you are capable of doing if the grace of God ever withdrew from us."

>The main importance is to get this person saved.  They need to hear
>the truth about God and if it takes saying a fag is not going to heaven,
>then.....

Sounds like the comments wre really directed to the church...

Some of us WERE fags, some were whackos and liars, and creeps. In
fact, it wasnt nice then, and it isnt nice now, but the grace of God
cleaned up some fags, and made us saints, Praise GOD!

Seems a good contrast to me: 

* Saint BY the grace of God, 

* Creep (or f, or t, or q) without.

Big time contrast.