{"id":2299,"date":"2013-09-18T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2013-09-18T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T01:37:16","slug":"ht-mohler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"PATHETIC PREACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 39px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn1.russellmoore.com\/2012\/08\/simpsons-in-church-sleeping.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Al Mohler: Fred Craddock, among the most influential figures in recent homiletic thought, famously describes today\u2019s preacher \u201cas one without authority.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His portrait of the preacher\u2019s predicament is haunting: \u201cThe old thunderbolts rust in the attic while the minister tries to lead his people through the morass of relativities and proximate possibilities.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNo longer can the preacher presuppose the general recognition of his authority as a clergyman, or the authority of his institution, or the authority of Scripture,\u201d Craddock argues. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarizing the predicament of the postmodern preacher, he relates that the preacher \u201cseriously asks himself whether he should continue to serve up monologue in a dialogical world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From Al Mohler: Fred Craddock, among the most influential figures in recent homiletic thought, famously describes today\u2019s preacher \u201cas one without authority.\u201d His portrait of the preacher\u2019s predicament is haunting: \u201cThe old thunderbolts rust in the attic while the minister tries to lead his people through the morass of relativities and proximate possibilities.\u201d \u201cNo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}