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...WORDS: I once knew this preacher back home who liked to use words that he sometimes didn't quite understand. One time he brought in a visiting preacher, and after introducing him to the congregation he told him to preach loud, "because the agnostics in this church are not very good...
...mission and evangelism. In his keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, Graham pushed for capital punishment and "the strongest possible rape laws. I believe that a person guilty of rape should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick...
Died. The Rev. Robert J. McCracken, 68, minister of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church for 21 years; while on a world cruise; near Bangkok. A wry, Scots-born Baptist, McCracken succeeded the nationally famous radio preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, at Riverside in 1946. In understated but eloquent sermons, he was an ardent advocate of both ecumenism and civil rights...
Although Memorial Church goers differ on the Church's purpose and on Gomes's role in relation to that purpose, there seems to be general approval of his sermons and direction of worship. "He's a very good preacher," Stone said, "He's broad enough in theology to attract people without being wishy-washy...
...also rejects the idea of the Church as social reformer. "It is not necessarily the principal role of the church or the preacher to be the social gadfly, the relevancy gadfly. Such a view means you get caught up in being very trendy--"with it"--at limited points in time," Gomes said. "There is a longer view which the church and its ministers ought to have--one that doesn't derive its legitimacy from its passions...