Controlling Pastors ?

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I find it difficult to listen to Pastors and Preachers these days because often they seem to be very controlling people all this

"Stand Up"
"Sit Down"
"Give the Lord a clap"
"I think God wants this that or the other"

Is this normal or is it just me ?
 
GlorytoGod said:
I find it difficult to listen to Pastors and Preachers these days because often they seem to be very controlling people all this

"Stand Up"
"Sit Down"
"Give the Lord a clap"
"I think God wants this that or the other"

Is this normal or is it just me ?
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My Priest certainly has never done anything like that. Nor did the Priests in the parishes I attended before moving to my current home town.
 
GlorytoGod said:
maybe its my choice of churches then
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It could be. There are churches with liturgical traditions based on traveling entertainment and snake oil troupes of the 19th century. A showman/barker would lead the audience in its responses, in order to whip the crowd into a frenzy to lay down its money for whatever product was being hawked. It's a technique that works, so it was adopted by some--only some--tradition lines of Protestant itinerant preachers. It's a crowd control and advertising technique. People then conflated having a certain "feeling" of being "fired up" or "spirit filled" with authentic religious experience--and then turn around and presume anything that doesn't have that sort of neurological phenomenon associated with it cannot be an authentic religious experience. I have no doubt that a "fired up" feeling can be an authentic religious experience, but it is only one of many ways--and it is insufficient in and of itself to guarantee divine authenticity.
 
Some preachers have controlling and dominating personalities They use preaching opportunities to justify their behaving in such a way. I have seen some TV evangelists with frightful personalties.

When we encounter such people, it is time to move on.
 
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