Southern Preaching

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Originally Posted by Billy

Bless your heart

Ouch!

[Wilderness Voice]

Originally Posted by Violet

If you meant for this to be a thread about sermon content and depth, why did you open with a statement about southern accents?

Well it was hard not to notice. I just figured if they have southern accents then they probably are from the south.

Originally Posted by Violet

And are you really asking if preachers from the south are just generally lackluster, boring, and lacking in content or depth??

Yes, that's what I am trying to discover.

Originally Posted by Violet

There are a multitude of preachers in the south... Can you possibly have listened to enough sermons to make such a broad generalization... and be committed enough to that generalization to ask if others share it?

As I previously stated, I listened to NUMEROUS messages, (probably 75 or more), hoping to find something to peak my interest and teach me some depth in order that I might grow in the faith.

[samspade]

Originally Posted by Wilderness Voice

I think that might possibly be a part of the puzzle. The theological emphasis in the south might possible be quite different than the north.

Once again, you're making a geographical distinction that makes no sense. There are shallow, boring preachers in every region of the country. Once again, is the problem with the type of preachers you listen to?

[ChuckBob]

Originally Posted by Wilderness Voice

Recently I have been listening to numerous messages from SermonAudio.com. with the hope of downloading some decent messages onto my MP3 player to listen to when I'm out walking. Many of the messages on SermonAudio.com seem to come from preachers from the south with southern accents. I live in a northern state and have personally found the majority of messages by these southern preachers to either be lackluster, or such that make me yawn and bore me to death because they seem to lack any real content or depth.

Does anyone else find that to be true for them as well?

Son, I would suggest that try the Southern Baptist. They've got all the good ones.


ChuckBob

[Ransom]

I just figured if they have southern accents then they probably are from the south.

Well, unless you're Jack Schaap, who has a southern accent because he's channelling the departed spirit of dear old daddy-in-law from the south.

[gonebutnotforgotten]

Originally Posted by Wilderness Voice

Recently I have been listening to numerous messages from SermonAudio.com. with the hope of downloading some decent messages onto my MP3 player to listen to when I'm out walking. Many of the messages on SermonAudio.com seem to come from preachers from the south with southern accents. I live in a northern state and have personally found the majority of messages by these southern preachers to either be lackluster, or such that make me yawn and bore me to death because they seem to lack any real content or depth.

Does anyone else find that to be true for them as well?

Could you hear the unmistakable sound of a bus running in the background?

[SouthernLouisianaGal]

Originally Posted by gonebutnotforgotten

Could you hear the unmistakable sound of a bus running in the background?

~~snicker~~

(only if it is at nighttime)

[Wilderness Voice]

Originally Posted by ChuckBob

Son, I would suggest that try the Southern Baptist. They've got all the good ones.


ChuckBob

If I were to go Bass Fishing with a southern Baptist I probably wouldn't yawn.

[Mrs.Soprano]

Originally Posted by gonebutnotforgotten

Could you hear the unmistakable sound of a bus running in the background?

Gone, I believe without a doubt, you have just written the most thought-provoking and witty message I have ever seen from you.

[Jdlamps]

I have heard both. I'll take northern any day as the main type of preaching is mostly expository. However I have listened to a some southern preachers who do study for hours before preaching an avoid ranting an raving for 45 minutes after reading one verse of scripture.