Even if you removed all the words and just left the tone of voice, you’d still know you were listening to a southern fundamentalist preacher.
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Haha funny! I don’t understand how people can do that. Doesn’t that hurt the precious voice after awhile? 🙂
The preaching style reminds me of Fundieism, the highback chairs that look like kings thrones remind me of Fundieism, and the baptistery centered in the wall of the church reminds me of Fundieism, but doesn’t having guitar in church automatically disqualify you?
Not in the South where Southern Gospel music is sanctified and above reproach.
My students hate it when I teach like that.
Yea, living in the Northeast it’s rare to see a guitar on the stage (I mean platform). But you’re right, the highback chairs and even the purple carpeting are cleary fundie. But I’m not used to seeing those types of mikes on a fundie preacher, it’s almost always lapel mikes up here.
That’s good preachin’ right there! 😀
I would keel over if I preached like that…and I’m only 27. It does give you a adrenalin high tho I imagine.
Yea the guitar would never fly in a fundy church up here in the midwest!
And did you notice that he’s using a pop-culture-born boom mike!!
That was a boom mike?
I thought it was a big mole!!
With that mic, he’s one step away from Joel Osteen.
I was waiting for the “thump” of the King James Bible on the pulpit.
Ooh good point Morgan! And he has to slap his large KJB a couple times, pointing at people with it!
I thought this was going to be different. This guy is so minor league. 😉 The real champions are the “suck-n-blow” preachers. I heard one once — once (50 pts if you get the “Johnny Dangerously” reference).
Guy read the Scripture in a normal voice — it was 3 passages that I was curious to see how he was going to tie together — I was quite intrigued.
Then he prayed, also in a normal voice.
Then he proceeded to yell unintelligibly for 45 minutes (blow), interspersed with gasps for air (suck). This was punctuated by lots of “Amen”-ing from the congregation, who apparently understood the crazy moon language that he was using.
I still don’t know how those 3 passages correlate.
Regarding the guitar on “stage.” Try 2 guitars, a banjo, mandolin and stand up bass in churches with KJV 1611 on the sign out front. I’ve been behind one of those guitars many times in many churches over 25 years of traveling music ministry and I don’t recall a time when they objected. One little KJV 1611 church even asked us to do our secular cowboy music along with our gospel music in both Sunday school program and the AM service! We were stunned and felt kind of uncomfortable with it, but they loved it and have asked us back over the years. I guess you just never know. BTW cowboy music here is not country– think Sons of the Pioneers or Roy Rogers.
Honestly, I think everyone of these guys picks a preacher that they like and just models them.
As a hairstylist, I must point out that my dog can cut a better high and tight than that guy’s sporting.
Anybody else getting a string-quartet overlay starting about halfway in?
I liked the sound of it – but didn’t know why it was there!
Sounds like a Sunday open air-market salesman
I’m not asking 50,
I’m not asking 40,
I’m not asking 30,
Who will give me 20 for this set of saucepans.
Del Boy?
Don’t worry, Rodney. This time next year, we’ll be millionaires!
lovely jubbly!
At least he was preaching the Gospel, and not saying anything about KJV only or other silly things.
I kept expecting to hear “In a van down by the river…” somewhere in the middle of that.
Yep, been in a lot of these services.
“And GOD-huh requires his people to be CHASTE-huh before HIM-huh! Guh-LOR-RAAAAAYh *clap
Even without the sound you can tell this is a fundamentalist preacher. You could almost make action figures of these guys. 😉
Omigosh, Steve, that’s a fantastic idea!! Think of the possibilities… 😆
Yes. Something like my “Tropical Jazzy Santa” figurine (who plays “Jingle Bells” on sax and dances the twist).
The “Hollering Fundy Preacher” action figure waves his fingers and claps his hands while his jaws flutter.
Steve, only a guy would call a plastic replica of a male human being an “action figure”. I would call it a “doll”.
This has to be learned behavior, and in my brief time as a pastor before I came out of IFB and turned to the PCA, I never was able to learn it!