Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week. Then Layman Howard Edward Butt Jr., 26, preached a sermon on one of his favorite themes: Christians must have the dedication to their cause that Communists have for theirs. His listeners liked it so well that they asked him to come back next August and preach an eight-day revival...
What Groceryman Butt means when he calls himself a Gospel-bootlegger is simply that he is not a minister and has no formal license to preach. Moreover, his regular job in the world is responsible and demanding; he is vice president of the HEB grocery chain, one of the most successful in Texas, with 60 stores and a gross of more than $60 million a year. But he believes that laymen have a real preaching role: "Your listeners will figure 'He wouldn't be talking about religion if he hadn't experienced it,' and secondly...
...Jesus told his disciples to go and 'preach the word.' In the same breath he said, 'Heal the sick.' Certainly he did not intend for all of us to study medicine and become physicians or psychiatrists. But he did intend for us to have enough faith to bring the healing presence and power of Christ sanely and worshipfully to those in need...
...meeting hall in Westminster came ready to perform on him an expert British drawing-and-quartering. But Billy got in the first few thousand words. "I am here," he explained, "because I was invited to come. I am not here for your money . . . I'm not going to preach antiCommunism, anti-socialism or anti-liberalism ... I have come to preach Christ...
...main trends of the year, non-fiction outsold fiction, children's books had a boom (notwithstanding their dully predictable tendency to preach good behavior in barnyard parables), and a lot of good reading continued to turn up more or less unheralded. Finally, for the second year in a row, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible sold more than 1,000,000 copies, to lead all other current books...