{"id":639,"date":"2014-06-05T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/06\/the-loyalty-in-and-purpose-of-preaching.html"},"modified":"2014-06-05T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:31:00","slug":"the-loyalty-in-and-purpose-of-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/06\/the-loyalty-in-and-purpose-of-preaching.html","title":{"rendered":"The Loyalty in and Purpose of Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
By now, many of you have heard about the inflammatory statement Pastor Jamal Bryant made in a recent sermon entitled \u201cI Am My Enemy\u2019s Worst Nightmare.\u201d Bryant, dressed in an electric-blue suit coat, yelled \u201cTHESE H*ES AIN\u2019T LOYAL<\/a>,\u201d a popular Rap lyric from singer Chris Brown to his congregation during the sermon about Pontius Pilate and his wife\u2019s premonition about crucifying Jesus. Now, if you find difficulty making the connection between \u201cdisloyal h*es\u201d and Pilate\u2019s wife, you\u2019re not alone. There\u2019s not enough space or time to really explore the context of the scripture or his comment, but what there is time for is to talk about the loyalty\u00a0in<\/em>\u00a0and purpose\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0preaching.<\/span><\/div>\n
Before the influx of social media, preachers had to have a\u00a0literal<\/em>\u00a0platform \u2013 a storefront church, a borrowed pulpit, a makeshift theater, a lived-in basement, some form of physical location for the Word of God to go forth. Technology has eradicated the\u00a0need<\/em>\u00a0for a physical platform, making the preaching moment a virtual one where people all over the world can participate in the going forth of the Gospel.<\/span><\/div>\n
This has presented, however, a challenge in authenticating the voice and role of preaching as the influx of social media and influence of popular culture has removed the need for traditional validation and divine vocational call. It is the inundation people who have taken up the role of \u201cpreacher\u201d simply because there is new \u201creal estate\u201d for them to preach without counting the cost.<\/span><\/div>\n
It is the push to be relevant, known, have the most followers or retweets that has removed the sacredness of the preaching moment and turned it into a 140-character preach-off. Many young preachers find themselves using popular culture as a catalyst for \u201cviral\u201d exposure, maybe with the good intentions to increase their platform to spread the Gospel. But what it does, however, is push the preacher\u2019s personality and viral moment past the Gospel, overshadowing the richness of the preaching moment.<\/span><\/div>\n
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