Originally posted by NorrinRadd
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Pastor: "GOD IS DEAD!!",
Parishioners: -gasp- "What did he just say? Did he just say 'God is dead'?"
Pastor: "'God IS DEAD!', claim the foolhardy of this world, but we know that God is a living Spirit, and through his Spirit we have everlasting life!"
Parishioners: -applause-
This is a pretty weak example really, and I've seen some sermons where I'm thinking "what is this guy talking about?", and then I find the pastor walking it all back in the last 10 minutes of the sermon, or tying things off in a more-or-less orthodox fashion by the end of the whole thing. I don't really care for that sermon style...it seems like a product of the church revival period which I imagine was meant to be as much entertainment as it was educational, but anyhow, most folks in the Word of Faith movement know that when the pastor is sort of going off the rails into some pretty bizarro stuff that he'll eventually move it back into orthodoxy, and that seems to be lost on a lot of people who aren't that familiar with the movement. It's a shame that there are so many portions of the Hanegraaff's book that's like that because I think it's a great tool for those who are in the movement to expose some of the more heterodox teaching and have people rethink some of the stranger aspects of the movement, but I know that anyone in that movement who's pretty plugged in would put it down after a couple chapters because they wouldn't recognize any of the stranger or hyperbolic things he mentions in their own experiences.
Originally posted by NorrinRadd
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