Alistair Begg zings six kinds of lousy preachers.

this is Richard radio with toad Frio guess go ahead and guess how many more tomorrow clubs could be started if the tomorrow clubs had more support go ahead guests two three four wrong as many as they receive support for they will open the opportunity is that huge don't forget Russia getting very dicey I think tomorrow clubs give or take has about eighty clubs maybe sixty in Russia and now thanks to Vladimir Putin poutine sounds like a energy drink or something doesn't know what routine is a Canadian dish Canadian French fries cheese curds gravy you can add bacon with the gravy part why would you recommend fight you know it's got pretty good French fries Culver went there Sunday after church there's a new one in Tom they're starting to pop up there's a lot of five guys by the way in the twin cities not when I used to live there but now they've got them scattered all over the place in the twin cities Culver's just open here their french fries are bad I'm just saying french fries are pretty good the barbecue sauce oh man that barbecue sweet barbecue if you like the tangy stuff the Culver's won't be your cup of barbecue sauce but if you like it sweet oh I'm telling you with the french fries doll and then you get yourself that ice-cream thing that but maybe it's dairy product cuz I know that's a mystery food isn't it custard that's it oh there's good that good eatin there at them at the at the Culver at any rate was talking to the Marty's about this and the the the the the tightening of the noose in Russia is is almost an imminent threat they Putin says that he's doing it to keep Muslims from getting more terrorists cultivated in Russia but he's so connected to the Russian Orthodox Church and they have a stranglehold on the nation and they want to keep it and they will do anything to keep it I've heard more than one story of some pretty nasty business in Eastern European countries from Orthodox priests because they're not so not sub those Protestants being here and so that is that's a situation that we're just kind of watching in hopes that those tomorrow clubs can stay open nevertheless in other Eastern European countries romania and moldova etc if they've got the support they open up a club kids hear the gospel families saved entire villages transformed totally you can support a tomorrow club if and you can at tomorrow clubs dot org slash wretched tomorrow clubs dot org slash wretched more money the more clubs they open the more kids hear the gospel because i got to tell you at the eastern orthodox gospel it's not very cheery if they ever preach it at all denying penal substitution area toment geeks i know that that won't put a smile on your face which is pretty true of an awful lot of eastern european people they do not walk around whistling a happy song let us now share with you what i prepared weeks ago away okay that's just an outright lie so here's the deal I mentioned Aleister Beggs name about a half an hour ago uh I went looking for the clip that I was talking about the clip of him talking to pastors and saying hey be careful about being lazy in the ministry I couldn't find that but I did run into this we've become very familiar with preaching that pays scant attention to the Bible is self focused and is consequently only capable of making the most superficial impact upon the lives of the listeners this would be bad enough were it not for the fact that large sections of the church who listen to this kind of stuff are actually oblivious to the fact that what they're getting is a placebo rather than the real medicine alistair beg and that wasn't bad that was at least sort of scottish in the neighborhood by the way who won the open in scotland Carnoustie which some people call car nasty i couldn't find it it was the weirdest thing on sunday i was looking for the open results couldn't find him even at the open website Golf Channel couldn't find him Monday can't find it what do some did they get raptured did it turns out that only golfers are believers and the whole thing the tournament got raptured could that possibly be it at any rate you find the winner Joey stone I'm sorry B stone well I don't know why you're telling me to become a rose oh yes completely different congratulations Brandon stone Aleister bag is sharing the different types of non expository preachers being a preacher you have the cheerleader he comes in he's a well-meaning fellow he has a peculiar need to be light and accept and whatever the context of his particular message he is always going to be positively inspirational a good Sunday for the cheerleader is one where his people laugh a lot are affirmed and affirming and they go away more self-assured than when they arrived that would be the cheerleader this is the conjurer preacher secondly the conjurer when we hear the congregation declaring wasn't it amazing what he got out of that huh we should not immediately assume that the news is good now whenever the preacher refuses to do the hard work of discovering what the text actually means in its context when he divorces discovery and application just about anything can be conveyed from the Bible and very often is now and a good expositor should be able to wring a lot out of a text but if it's somebody who just rung something out of thin air you got yourself the conjurer if a man does not have a solid conviction that the Word of God is powerful in and of itself he's gonna be forced to do something with it to try and overcome the consumer resistance which he feels is his task because he has a product it's the Bible he has a consumerist the individual and his ability is gonna be seen in the way in which he can make the sale you know and I'd like to say those guys shouldn't be let out of seminary but sadly many don't go to seminary and those that do go to complete stinkers did I mention I was just with Ken Ham last week and I did a word association with him and I said the state of the local church go and and and in his outlook was not hmm optimistic and he said it's because of the seminaries he said everywhere I go the number one question that I'm asked is do you know of a good church nearby cuz we just need a good church nearby why because the seminaries are cranking out storytellers certainly the storyteller this man has convinced themselves that since everyone loves a good story and since people tend to be less inclined to follow the exposition of the Bible he'll just develop his gift for storytelling to the neglect of the hard work of biblical exposition I'm so sorry I should have turned my microphone off when I was coughing like that that just kind of got stuck in my throat what about the Entertainer instead of the preacher he decides he's become an entertainer too often these days you're invited to preach somewhere and no thought is given to the preacher being part of the worshipping from instead they offer you into the green room as they call it there you're invited to relax quotes backstage until it's time for you to quotes do your thing you know I can I can get that to a degree at events to a degree but if the pastor is not even worshiping with the congregation something is wrong that's why when I go to a conference in other speakers out I'm just listening taking it at worshiping singing along not just waiting to entertain the system at sizer I'm referring here to the preacher who've used the text of Scripture merely as the backdrop for a doctrinal lecture who simply wants to take the Bible use it to explain something that he just read in a fat book somewhere that really give him a jazz this is very different from the individual who in the course of exegete inner passage draws out the elements of Christian doctrine I may just translate that Scottish for you I think give image as is he got excited about it so now what does he do well I gotta go figure out what my text is so I can use it as a springboard to dive into the depths of my own imaginations the psychologist unfortunately many contemporary poopers are increasingly filled with pseudo psychologists who have decided to become purveyors of helpful insights most of which can be and often are delivered without reference to the Bible and don't you fiddle around and lace it with a few Bible verses and make me think that you're teaching me the Bible you're not teaching me the Bible Oh glad to see where Aleister stands on biblical counseling versus psychology naked preaching I'm not talking about that sense of vulnerability that is an inevitable element of investing our lives in the teaching of the Bible but rather the way in which the pulpit has become a place for pastors to share their faults and their highballs you know an attempt at authenticity I want to let my congregation know how real I am as if they needed to make that discovery the sermon is not usually the best place for that kind of sharing we've got our hands full proclaiming the gospel pointing to Christ telling these story and I want to suggest that it's not advisable to use the time to point to ourselves and to use it to share our story I hope that trend has disappeared cuz it has been around for far too long just blah blah blah spilling my guts on it's like Romans 7 every single Sunday exposition of Scripture is also undermined by a fascination with the so called extra biblical prophetic word people saying well I know pastor that you have a Bible and I know you know a lot of verses in the Bible because you've studied it a lot but I have a very pressing problem and I wonder if you couldn't just give me a word directly from God and please don't use the Bible what he just said in a sermon before it's ridiculous pastors aren't Oracles of God getting divine revelation just for you they study the wordix posited and just for you this is wretched Radio shout-out to our gospel partners it is your ongoing monthly support that allows us to do a wretched radio every single day and provide the broadcast the 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Length: 11min 36sec (696 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 17 2018