Just thought I would vent, rant & complain about all the many times over the last number of years that I have heard preachers use secular movie references while preaching. I'm up to my gills with it.
I think that the best sermon illustrations come from the Bible. After that personal illustrations and then stories from real life.
But all too often of late, you can tell how preachers spend their time.......because "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh", it pops out in a message.
There was a time when preachers had large libraries, studied, read books, biographies & missionary stories from which they would draw illustrations.
Yesterday I heard an opening illustration about how popular & how much $$ the 007 movies raked in over the years.
Is there any thought that maybe preachers are wetting the appetites of their listeners for the world & it's advertising via what preachers used to refer to a hellywood.
Just saying......
I think that the best sermon illustrations come from the Bible. After that personal illustrations and then stories from real life.
But all too often of late, you can tell how preachers spend their time.......because "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh", it pops out in a message.
There was a time when preachers had large libraries, studied, read books, biographies & missionary stories from which they would draw illustrations.
Yesterday I heard an opening illustration about how popular & how much $$ the 007 movies raked in over the years.
Is there any thought that maybe preachers are wetting the appetites of their listeners for the world & it's advertising via what preachers used to refer to a hellywood.
Just saying......