As reported in an article in Your Churchmagazine, 55 percent of pastors can identify one or more topics on which they would not preach at all or only sparingly, because the sermon could negatively affect their hearers' willingness to attend church in the future.
Among them are:
Politics - 38 percent
Homosexuality - 23 percent
Abortion - 18 percent
Same-sex marriage - 17 percent
War - 17 percent
Women's role in church and home - 13 percent
The doctrine of election - 13 percent
Hell - 7 percent
Money - 3 percent
Kent comments:
My first reaction to this was: What a bunch of weenies! Just how much like John the Baptist, Jesus, or the Apostle Paul are you if you are afraid to preach on some topic because someone listening might not like it?
But then I had a second thought: Even in the “Politics” category, this would indicate that 62% are willing to preach on the topic. So perhaps most of the “pastors” aren’t such weenies after all!
And then I had a third thought. For much of the preaching I have heard and read on these topics, I would rather that “pastors” didn’t preach on them at all, because most of the preaching in these areas is either so shallow as to be pointless, or just plain wrong.
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I had read that today as well. My thought was this: How about just preaching the Bible as it is to men as they are?
If I was afraid to preach because someone wouldn't like it. Then I don't think I could ever preach again.
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