tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post113729219403140626..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: On the virtue of heckling preachersBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1159200586667854882006-09-25T12:09:00.000-04:002006-09-25T12:09:00.000-04:00They were stools Byron, stools. But not the Anglic...They were stools Byron, stools. But not the Anglican three-legged variety...michael jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379361601019023165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1152325708409058712006-07-07T22:28:00.000-04:002006-07-07T22:28:00.000-04:00I realise I'm joining this discussion well after t...I realise I'm joining this discussion well after the horse has bolted (alas for the ephemerality of blogging), but I've heard that it's an offense to 'disrupt a religious service'. Any lawyers who can confirm or deny this? Though I also vaguely remember that in Scotland during the Reformation, that there were chairs thrown at preachers during some services.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137704955879109462006-01-19T16:09:00.000-05:002006-01-19T16:09:00.000-05:00I'm with Steph. I wouldn't heckle a preacher, but...I'm with Steph. I wouldn't heckle a preacher, but I would certainly walk out on one. I have done so on a few occasions, when I felt the congregation was being offered a drink from a poisoned well.<BR/><BR/>Not often. Only once or twice, when the situation really demanded a small gesture of protest.stchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04018824090441668781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137470425331059972006-01-16T23:00:00.000-05:002006-01-16T23:00:00.000-05:00Ben, there's nothing like hearing such schlock fro...Ben, there's nothing like hearing such schlock from God's pulpit when your soul needed the Word preached and then having to pay the fellow a speaker's fee when it is all done. As a deacon in my last church, I can think of several occasions when only the moderate hand of my wife kept me from physically stopping the leaky dam of human musings altogether!tchittomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137440062250870062006-01-16T14:34:00.000-05:002006-01-16T14:34:00.000-05:00I am blessed with a congregation that loves to hec...I am blessed with a congregation that loves to heckle me :-). That is one of the virtues of small congregational settings - you get lots of interaction. The closest I've come to heckling was once I was visiting this holiness church with a friend and when I wispered a comment to him (also a minister) the preacher berated me from the pulpit. Takes all kinds I guess - I did not return.One of Freedomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479227411431959461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137378113066403532006-01-15T21:21:00.000-05:002006-01-15T21:21:00.000-05:00What church do you regularly attend?What church do you regularly attend?existentialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18121706260786532883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137324023152215802006-01-15T06:20:00.000-05:002006-01-15T06:20:00.000-05:00While the restraint shown by you and the rest of t...While the restraint shown by you and the rest of the congregation was an exemplary model of the virtue of meekness, Paisley wouldn't know meek if he fell over it. If you had all behaved like him you would have yelled at the preacher "I denounce you Anti Christ" as Paisley yelled at the Pope, or "I will kill all who get in my way" as he did after a loyalist rally at some reporters.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I could have been as virtuous as you. I would have walked out at least. But then I'm just a naughty heretical eighth stater! Te taonga o te Moananui-a-Kiwa!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137320479464991472006-01-15T05:21:00.000-05:002006-01-15T05:21:00.000-05:00Ben,I hope it wasn't FL Presbyterian Chuch! I thou...Ben,<BR/>I hope it wasn't FL Presbyterian Chuch! I thought Paisley's idea of ecumenical relations was for the UDR to kill all the Catholics.Michael F. Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137316488089872492006-01-15T04:14:00.000-05:002006-01-15T04:14:00.000-05:00I agree, Jim, with your diagnosis: if we really be...I agree, Jim, with your diagnosis: if we really believed that the purpose of preaching was to announce the Word of God, then we would be much more upset by preachers who merely announce their own trivial (or even wicked) political and ideological opinions.<BR/><BR/>I guess that's why no one <I>did</I> heckle the guy this morning: we weren't <I>really</I> expecting to hear the "voice of the Shepherd", so we weren't particularly shocked when instead we heard the "voice of a stranger".Ben Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137315717599073622006-01-15T04:01:00.000-05:002006-01-15T04:01:00.000-05:00That's the guy, t.b. vick.Using Paisley as a model...That's the guy, t.b. vick.<BR/><BR/>Using Paisley as a model of meekness is rather like pointing to the Hunchback of Notre Dame as an example of good posture.<BR/><BR/>You know the apocryphal story about Paisley preaching on the agonies of hell, "where there will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth."<BR/>A little old man at the back of the church exclaimed, "But Dr. Paisley, I don't have any teeth."<BR/>Paisley thundered back, "Teeth will be provided!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137297082870110412006-01-14T22:51:00.000-05:002006-01-14T22:51:00.000-05:00Is Ian Paisly the European "fundie" type guy who i...Is Ian Paisly the European "fundie" type guy who is extremely anti-Catholic and is part of the Free-Presbyterian Church?<BR/><BR/>(Excuse me if I seem a little ignorant here)T.B. Vickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00965990105136999148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1137296268087523892006-01-14T22:37:00.000-05:002006-01-14T22:37:00.000-05:00That's because preaching is no loger Verbum Dei, b...That's because preaching is no loger Verbum Dei, but something much less and therefore without significance.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698562143972216357noreply@blogger.com