Trailer #4: Dr. Frank A. Thomas Talks About His Most Difficult Preaching Moment

[Music] what was one of your most difficult preaching moments challenging preaching moments the most difficult preaching mama challenging was I told you that I was a pastor and a group filed a lawsuit against me in the church man the church leadership and so it was done on a Monday afternoon so I get a phone call and there's a lawsuit Donny with your name on with my name on it and so we got down there and got it and it had my name and I never then was at a church it was suing us so it was devastating I mean I was absolutely devastating and so I'm the preacher for Sunday morning and what do I preach I said we know what I'm gonna do I'm I'll call dr. Gina my co Stewart medic or being preached you know cuz I can't okay I mean I was I was out of it you know you're in shock first of all any when you come out of shot you go to depression I mean like we supposed to be Christians and then it was public which means people got copies of it and spread it the barbershops the newspapers the television stations it was every waiter I got call from people across the country that I heard from and I don't know why I called you all right yeah we heard about it right so I said well I can't duck out and bring in a guest so this one I'm gonna do I'm gonna preach he whitewashed tombs ye workers of iniquity you know even it would be so sermons and then when they say you're talking about I sitting all right no we ain't talking about Jesus it's right into x-ray and so somewhere about Thursday and Friday I can't claim credit what I think it really was God the word came to me preach what you most deeply believe about the character of God mm-hmm so I tell preachers the more trouble you an priest to carry what is that you preach the character of God what is it so I believe that God is a God of mercy so when you're in a public scandal like that you know it has the feel of being in school and you know it's like there's gonna be a fight at 3 it's going down at 3 right right so everybody hangs around the playground waiting for it to go down people are known to go home don't go home that they hang all right they hang around so this is this is how it wasn't a church I mean is this like okay everybody was there they wanna see what I'm gonna say what I'm gonna do Carolyn I flew down to be with me Martha Simmons flu and I gathered a little family together my wife my son and my daughter and I said um no matter what happens we're gonna hold my head up the people don't have a right to our private pain mm-hm anyway that right whatever happens you know I said um we're gonna get through it I'm um so I preached that morning our God is so full of compassion we serve a merciful God I preached what I believe about the character of God it wasn't a good summer I wish that uh the structure would have been better I wish that my clothes would have been tighter you know it was a hard clothes our clothes you know but it's an example of what I was saying is that sometimes you just you stand there on the Word of God and it says in season and out of season and I wish would have been better I wish I could have done better but I couldn't but by virtue of the fact that I stood there and off at the very best I thought God was pleased and and I went home and laid down somewhere and took refuge in my family so I think that was probably the most difficult preaching moment and I've seen a lot of preachers not just me I saw a preacher I was doing revival for a preacher in st. Louis and the daughter had an aneurysm and died last night I was waiting and picking up at the hotel never came mm-hmm never came they rushed her out of the house next week he preached a feral and she was sitting down to casket so when he got out I went it up that pulpit I lost it they had a city in the face of death it's a steel proclaim yeah so I know that I'm not doing under there preachers they do it a lot but you gotta find it somewhere and there aren't appropriate times when you shouldn't creation you know if me and my wife for example were splitting up it might not be a good time to preach you know you know there could be things but I had to preach that Sunday right as the pastor had to you know I had to stand nobody reminds me of that wonderful text where Absalom has died David is grieving and I think one of the generals comes in and say you're gonna grieve more for your son who betrayed you then you are for all these soldiers that have been faithful mm-hmm you need to sit up in that chair and what it's heartbreaking and grieving like crazy he sits there as the king Wow and that's when I haven't preached that yet yeah but I hear Sarah my eyes come you know I know I'm saying preaching dr. genus to a sermon I said didn't you see me on table I see and I was in a conversation and I somewhere you

Channel: Frank Thomas

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Keywords: Black Preaching, African American Preaching, Black Homiletics, African American Homiletics, Frank A. Thomas, Dr. Frank A. Thomas, PhD African American Homiletics, PhD African American Preaching, Preaching, Homiletics, Christian Theological Seminary, Academy of Preaching and Celebration

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Length: 7min 11sec (431 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 12 2019