Blah Guy

I hear more complaints about sermons than anything else. You would think it is the most important thing to Christians in their simple existence, when in reality, preaching takes a much lesser place than preachers like to think. Because preaching is the craft of the preacher, to complain or argue is like standing in front of a builder and his completed home and saying, “Wow, my kid could have done better.” It hurts, no doubt. We take it seriously. And for some odd reason we never seem to learn the all important lesson that preaching was invented by God not to placate or please, but to deride and piss off. Little preaching today does this. And of course it doesn’t have to upset the entire congregation to be effective or “God-breathed”, rather, it appears that preaching has become less and less about the very offensive nature of the gospel than it has about cute little stories of how I can stop cussing at that guy that just cut me off.