I can’t get too preachy about this topic. I am a drunk who got religion from hellfire radio preachers and booze in my life at the same time when I was young.
I am a sinner and a hypocrite. The religious subculture Bristol grew up in like my children grew up in is filled with SINNERS AND HYPOCRITES LIKE ME.
When it comes to sex I’ve finally figured out I need to keep it inside marriage involving a man and woman and can’t allow it anywhere else including my imagination.
Its a tall order but I’m finding at this point in my life with real help from God and real surrender of all my moments it can happen.
That’s what works for me in the sex area of my life right now.
We may be of a different generation but one such preacher who I recall quite well even now was Oliver B. Green of The Gospel Hour. I went to one of his tent revivals back in the early 60s and you could feel the flames of hell as he vividly described the place where unrepentant sinners would suffer for all eternity. Green studied at Bob Jones University, a Bible-based, very Conservative school in Greenville, SC, which gave him credibility to my way of thinking.
Although I'm a member of the somewhat more staid church of Christ, I do miss that old time style of preaching and passion for the Gospel. There was no pussyfooting around when it came to what hell and God's Heaven were all about.