Preach it, Doug!
I just read a quote and I couldn’t agree more (but not in the way the author intended). Here is the quote from Doug Pagitt (a pastor of an Emergent Church known as Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis):
“A sermon is often a violent act. . . . It’s a violence toward the will of the people who have to sit there and take it.”
To this I say…Amen! Please, God, do violence against my will until it falls in surrender to Yours and Yours alone. And may Your Word be Your weapon.
“A sermon is often a violent act. . . . It’s a violence toward the will of the people who have to sit there and take it.”
To this I say…Amen! Please, God, do violence against my will until it falls in surrender to Yours and Yours alone. And may Your Word be Your weapon.
Hey Mark, this is Doug Pagitt. I am going to be doing a presentation in a few weeks on the book and wondered if I could use your blog post as part of my presentation. I would like to use it to show that people have differing views of the this topic and what one person finds bothersome is what another appreciates.
ReplyDeleteDoug, that is no problem. I am sorry that I have not responded to your comment until now. Still getting used to this whole blog thing especially when it comes to comments.
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