Boldness (re: pulpit language)

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At 02:34 AM 9/9/96 EDT, you wrote:

> Now lets look at what Bro Arnold said Thursday night at MARC 96':
>
>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  And if the grace of God was withdrawn from us for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."

Thank you Chris. This indeed places things in proper context, and I must say
I don't have much of a problem with the above. When I hear that ministers
are calling homosexuals "faggots" or whatever from the pulpit, my initial
concern has less to do with what words are "good" or "bad", but whether the
effect is to encourage hatred for the sinner rather than the sin -
especially when the audience is entirely made up of ministers and saints.

Unfortunately, some preachers don't make this distinction.

Charles

P.S. I'm going to have to postpone my email for a while. It's getting
overwhelming.