CUT IT OUT
One continues to be dismayed at the tendency of many preachers to implicate friends and loved ones in their sermons. A minister in apparent innocence and in a mood of open confession tells a crowd of one hundred or more ministers that his parents rarely showed emotion in the home and thus bequeathed to him the notion that one should repress his reactions to reality. In one shot, a cheap shot at that, he unbares his soul and trashes his mother and father. A woman preacher rises to acknowledge that early on in her married life she had trouble relating to an obese daughter. The daughter is named before the congregation. Hence, under the guise of candor, a daughter’s weight problem is made public and a crowd that has no need or right to know is made privy to a family’s emotional chemistry. A preacher talks about a problem his son is having resisting marijuana at high school parties. He offers…
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