March 18, 2008
Wright is Wrong
Senator Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an interesting character. It’s reported that this pastor, before his retirement in February, led a congregation of 8,000. The sermon sound bites in the media are, I think at the very least, an embarrassment for the Lord and Christianity. Quite honestly I don’t see how the gospel can punch its way through the reverend’s political and personal agenda. In the video clips I’ve watched, I focused on those in the background - the choir and the audience. I’ve noticed that not everyone is clapping, nodding in agreement or offering an amen…and some of them look really, really tired. Maybe they are the ones who’ve grown weary of reminding the pastor of what Scripture says.
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Gail;
-----Anyone who stands in the pulpit and preaches his own perspective is preaching hate. One might want to argue against that statement, but to do so without first considering the fine points of the Word would well please the prowling lion. Paul not only makes it clear that there is a wide latitude for individual beliefs, but that we are to even respect one another’s differences, especially in the things we do to serve the Lord. He warns that doing otherwise may tend to destroy your brother’s faith. He also is very forward about the fact that love builds up. Then the obverse is that hate tears down. To ignore the differences in the congregation and insist on the correctness of one’s own perspective from the pulpit does tear down. That can not be love. It is hate. Yet minuscule minded spiritual midgets weasel their ways into the pulpit to hold up such books as Rick Warren’s, and other works of driveling magic, hoping to slam up such pop-hits as Saddleback Christian Church, ShmoozeRiver Church, and other appropriately named mansions of personality worship. Of course nobody is perfect, therefore nobody can stand in the pulpit and preach as if he is speaking the very words of God, But I know it can be done a lot better than what has wrenched and torn churches apart in the past. The pulpit is the pinnacle from which any man might speak. If he is not examining every idea set forth from there against the Word, then his speaking needs a generous sprinkling of caveat. Otherwise, we is merely seeding hatred.
Steve Corey
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