"Preachers"? (was: Spelling, "Preachers", and Temperance)

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In a message dated 98-02-13 12:09:23 EST, you write:

<< From:	Fretwell@aol.com
 
 <<
 Yet, there was whooping and hollering (all caught up in the emotions we
 have grown to call *the moving of the Spirit*) beause of this 
 self-made-message that God had no part in.  >>>
 
 Well said.  We really need to work on this.
 
 I fear that a lot of our preaching is geared toward the *response* we get
from
 the people, rather than for the Eternal Welfare of their souls.
 
 Rapid-fire yelling into the microphone is, at best, a very poor imitation of
 the Anointing of God.  Often as phoney as a three-dollar bill.
  >>

Me:
Anyone who continually listens to and accepts uninspired "messages" because of
an overzealous delivery is as much at fault as the entertainer (not preacher)
who spews forth such nonsense in the church of God. Real preachers preach the
Word!

2 Tim 4:3-4
3	For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
*their own lusts* shall they *heap to themselves* teachers, having *itching
ears*;
4	And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto
fables.

IOW, if the "saints" would stop all of their "whooping and hollering" (over
nothing of substance, that is), and being "caught up in emotions", the
showmanship would stop, or else the "snake oil salesman" would have to find a
new group of "customers". He can only "sell" something to those who are
willing to "buy" it.

In my experience, I have seen that the least likely to be fooled are those who
regularly attend Sunday School and Bible Study.

Pastor (neither selling nor buying) Joe
For do I now persuade men, or God? 
or do I seek to please men? 
for if I yet pleased men, 
I should not be the servant of Christ.(Gal 1:10)