The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
Judas heard all Christ's sermons.