Comments on: state of religious education http://jonathanperrodin.com/2009/09/state-of-religious-education/ musing on the post-everything world. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JakeT http://jonathanperrodin.com/2009/09/state-of-religious-education/comment-page-1/#comment-242 JakeT Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:14:10 +0000 http://jonathanperrodin.com/?p=992#comment-242 This is why I don't understand why people get so bent out of shape about whether or not somebody's a good preacher--with very rare exceptions, all of the preaching I've ever heard just repeats the same ideas I've heard over and over for the last 30 years anyways. It may or may not be a good reminder, but it's very rarely more than just milk-type stuff, so why bother getting bent out of shape about it (this isn't an excuse for bad preaching, just a plea for more grace for bad preachers and for a bit less importance to be placed on the sermon in general). This is why I don’t understand why people get so bent out of shape about whether or not somebody’s a good preacher–with very rare exceptions, all of the preaching I’ve ever heard just repeats the same ideas I’ve heard over and over for the last 30 years anyways.

It may or may not be a good reminder, but it’s very rarely more than just milk-type stuff, so why bother getting bent out of shape about it (this isn’t an excuse for bad preaching, just a plea for more grace for bad preachers and for a bit less importance to be placed on the sermon in general).

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