thistle93
Puritan Board Freshman
When I think of all the celebrity preachers out there I cannot help but hear in the back of my mind Paul scolding the Corinth church about how they latched onto a particular preacher and how this was detrimental to the church. Now one of the positives of celebrity preachers is they are able to get the Word of God out to a larger audience and have a platform that most preachers will not. One of the big negatives of celebrity preacher is often times congregations with compare their local church preacher to their favorite celebrity preacher and this often leaves the members disappointed and and the local preacher discouraged or people will consider these celebrity preachers their pastor and abstain from the local church. We in reformed circles often criticize general evangelicalism for its many pitfalls but on this issue I think almost as bad in reformed circles as general evangelicalism. I meet reformed people who seem to listen almost exclusively to a particular preacher and almost treat his teaching "pope" like. I will not mention names but one reformed preacher in particular seems to have this type of following. Now I am sure the preacher does not seeks or endorses this type of following. I wish some of these reformed celebrity preachers would address this issue and denounce it. If they have I would love to see or hear this, so please put a link. Please do not take this as me being judgmental. Rather it is just an observation and one that I myself can struggle with if not careful. It is easy for us to get on a bandwagon and make it more about the messenger rather than the message. Thoughts?
For His Glory-
Matthew
For His Glory-
Matthew