The Inebriated Preacher

Pastor Hughes 09-09-10 Ballard Campus
1 Tim 4:13-16
The Inebriated Preacher
Progress
This kind of preacher uses the Bible the way a drunk uses a lamp post, for support not for illumination.
Basically we come with a set of preconceptions that we lay in the Bible instead of coming to it with hands empty to learn and by the ghost's grace understand

Verses of Dire Warning for Preachers - Act 11:28-30, 1 Cor 16:1-4; 2 Cor 8:1-4


Hughes on Men
Why are real men completely absent from churches in the United States?
A real man knows that life sucks, relationships fall appart, ships sink, people die, life is short, poverty is crouching at the door.
+Saying Jesus is just a means to an end smells like a lie to any man who lives in reality.
+Preaching the risen Christ who lived a horrible life and was murdered, yet after rising still stands with us even as we are blindsided and limp toward the Kingdom rings true, it is a hard word, but it is a transformative word, by the grace of the Ghost.