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In a message dated 96-09-09 06:24:15 EDT, brian_berger@JUNO.COM (Brian K
Berger) writes:

<< First I went to bible School but all I learned I learned from the school
 of practical experience. The greatest fireballs in Bible School well they
 dropped by the wayside. Why do we have this misconception in our movement
 that our Bible Schools make preachers?!? I am afraid I still make the
 awful mistake of letting the congregation see my notes and I walk around
 too much while I preach. I guess the fact that people are receiving the
 Holy Ghost and the church is seeing revival means the Bible School proper
 preaching does not make one iota of difference. I do believe in training
 but again all who we thought would be the new leaders of today did not
 make it in the real world. The use of chicken cussing in the pulpit well
 that is something that should not be used but when Jesus said "He that
 believeth not shall be damned..." The damnation is what sends people to
 the altars.  
 
 Second, if we do not think a Pastor is doing right we have no reason to
 bring that up here or anywhere else, before we have sat down with him and
 let HIM know what we feel. 
 Brian Berger >>

There is SOO much is this post I disagree with that I am COMPELLED to
respond.
1) Bro. Berger suggests there is a pre-conception in our movement that it
takes Bible school to make a preacher. Just the opposite is true. There is a
GREAT bias AGAINST Bible schools.  Otherwise, why is it that only one or two
percent of young people who feel called into ministry go to Bible college?
2) To suggest that the good preachers didn't go to Bible college while those
who went usually don't amount to anything is ludicrous.  Need I give a roll
call of the great preachers who have?  Such as Daniel Segraves, Wayne
Goodine, Hugh Rose, Chester Wright, Lance Appleton, Allen Oggs, I have a
couple dozen more on my list, but you get the drift.
3) Why, oh why, do so many preachers OBJECT to a 3 or 4 year period in a yong
person's life in which they dedicate HOURS a day to studying the Word of God?
Where else are they made to spend so much time studying about God?  And why
does it threaten some Apostolics for them to do so?
4) Finally, Bro. Berger said, "Second, if we do not think a Pastor is doing
right we have no reason to
 bring that up here or anywhere else, before we have sat down with him and
 let HIM know what we feel."  Let's try one more time:  I NEVER brought up
this subject in reference to a specific instance, and CERTAINLY not my
pastor. My pastor, Paul Mooney, is the EPITOME of a gentleman when he
preaches, yet he does preach strongly against sin.  Somehow he manages to
preach against homosexuality without calling them the "F" word...Imagine
that!  Is the suggestion here that we cannot even bring up hypothetical
situations in which we might disagree with "a preacher" in general?  If so,
what is the good of this forum?

Blessings,
Rich Brown