I have said what Bob Jones is saying for years. It was fashionable in my younger and more militant days of IFBism to bash TV preachers like Stanley (the compromising Southern Baptist!), but I didn't look at him through the lens of those militant types. However, there was always something about his preaching (as a budding preacher myself) that bothered me. I didn't know enough in those days on how to put a finger on my misgivings, but intuitively I knew that there was something significantly different in the way he preached than the likes of Southern Baptists I respected like Adrian Rogers. Now that I'm older and a tad better at discerning and dissecting the message and homiletics of a man, I agree with the essence of what Bob Jones is saying. Stanley was a warm, loving, caring pastoral sort, but generally weak on meaty doctrine. Maybe that was only the way it was packaged for the Sunday morning telecast, and maybe he was more thorough/deep in his other "Sunday evening" messages, but just judging the stuff on the Tele, it was a bit of a weak-sauce IMNSHO. That doesn't mean I don't think he may have been used greatly of God, and as Paul said, I rejoice whenever the gospel is preached, and Stanley preached the gospel.
