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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.