Gimme that Ol' Time Guilt Trip

When you get to the point where you can just enjoy meter and theological acrobatics despite the message, you have reached a special place.

Just where that place is, I don't precisely know, but it's a nice place, nonetheless.

Pastor Greene knows where that place is. [1]

Oliver B Greene plays Jesus like Vassar Clements plays the the fiddle, which, if you've never heard him, sounds like this .

The Gospel Hour Home is here .   My personal opinion is irrelevant to your response to Pastor Greene, but IMHO he's one parishioner shy of a full pew.

But I happen to catch him a lot because I happen to tune into WPAQMount Arie a lot. I heard a lot of preaching just like that for years, not from Pastor Kenneth Andrus, or Pastor Ed Fuller before him (they were more reserved), but mostly guest speakers during what Bethel Baptist Church called missionary conferences.[2]

An occasional good ol' bible thumping hits the spot.

Just where that spot is, I don't precisely know, but it's a nice spot, nonetheless.

Funny church sign, for no other reason than because it's funny.

[1]
They swap these messages out; you likely won’t hear the one I heard, but they're pretty interchangeable.

[2]
Missionary conferences were fund-raising events as well; Bethel Baptist Church funded dozens of missionaries as I recall. In its hey day, Bethel was located at 737 East 26th Street in Erie, PA. It's no longer there, having moved out to West 38th many years ago. I remember well, however, old pictures of old pastors going back years, to the 1800's, before Bethel Baptist Church even existed at that location, and a massive bulletin board that had dozens of pushpins clustered in Erie, PA on a world map, each with a length of yarn attached to it and stretched to a country with a picture of a missionary family.

Started 2012-04-20