{"id":13001,"date":"2013-02-15T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/?p=13001"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:19:05","slug":"dead-preacher-still-preaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2013\/02\/dead-preacher-still-preaches\/","title":{"rendered":"dead preacher still preaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_13002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13002\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/123688767\/dead-preacher-still-preaches-print\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13002\" title=\"dead preacher\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2013\/02\/dead-preacher-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"dead preacher still preaches cartoon by nakedpastor david hayward\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cDead Preacher Still Preaches\u201d by nakedpastor David Hayward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><em>\u201cA bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.\u201d<\/em> (Isaiah 42: 3).<\/p>\n<p>When I attended Bible College, one of the things I had to do in order to graduate was intern under a pastor of a <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/pentecostal' target='_blank'>pentecostal<\/a> church for a summer. What an experience that was! I ended up in the deep south of Alabama in a pentecostal church that could be better described as a holiness pentecostal church. I experienced some pretty crazy things\u2026 things I thought were only in movies or Flannery O\u2019Connor stories.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor there was a screamer. I mean\u2026 he screamed at the top of his lungs for an hour perspiring, panting, pacing, pointing, and pontificating. It was exhausting for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was that visiting evangelist who also screamed. But he had an organ player who would slam a chord or two on his Hammond to emphasize the evangelist\u2019s message at just the right moments. That was exhausting AND entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is\u2026 and this is human behavior\u2026 the people expected this and loved this. It was a sign that it was anointed. That it was from God. That it was real genuine gospel. That the Holy Spirit was \u201con it\u201d. That you better get saved or you\u2019re going to Hell.<\/p>\n<p>And then we think of the stories of Jesus that reveal his preaching style as quite different.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nakedpastor.etsy.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SHOP<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.\u201d (Isaiah 42: 3). When I attended Bible College, one of the things I had to do in order to graduate was intern under a pastor of a pentecostal church for a summer. What an experience that was! 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