Paul Washer

ok so a few months ago i was on duty and i was checking out this site www.godtube.com. so there was this preacher called Paul Washer, there was a video of him preaching at a Youth Group. here's one of the links, http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=c1d1e567eb773a4b288d.

so anyway, what he basically does, is he goes to a youth group, and lets them know how they've gone wrong.

'i'll preach as a dying man. to dying men. and women. and youth. and i'll preach as though i will never preach again. and i will tell you things that you will misunderstand, and i will tell you things that will make you so angry with me. and i will tell you things that you will deny. and i will tell you things and you will say i have no right to tell you what i'm telling you.'

and he's not wrong man. 

he lambasts them over and over and over again about their anti nominism, and what's frightening is that i wonder whether the message is for me too. he talks about American christianity, and one of his controversial quotes

"The greatest heresy in the American evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in."

from there he talks about how salvation is by faith and faith alone in Jesus, which is preceeded and followed by repentance, a desire not to be like the world, not to be like the great majority of christians, not to be like britney spears, but to be like Jesus Christ. so the audience starts clapping, amening.

and then he says, "I don't know why you're clapping. I'm talking about you. I didn't come here to get amens. i didn't come here to be applauded. I'm talking about you."

as much as i love Donald Miller's writing, i'd say Paul Washer preceeds him should we talk about truth. simply because he used scripture. and it's sobering. and rather shocking.