Can you give us all an example of preaching the gospel in action?
BTW the principle complaint here seems to be that there is too much in the way of preaching and too little in the way of an Alexander Scoursby approach to Bible reading in the churches.
Now you seem to be complaing that the the pastor ought to Preach the Gospel. Well we all seem to have our own preferences in this regard and as far as I can tell none of them are particularly scriptural. So, what should the church do that you think will satisfy all the malcontents on this thread.
Alexander Scoursby
he did have a lovely voice ;-P
I think you're confusing the issue, or at least using a different definition of "preaching". Preaching, to me, is using the Word of God. Are you stating that there's a difference between preaching and reading scripture? IMO, the two go hand in hand.
Our pastor's sermons are, in essence, a larger version of a bible study. Every point made is backed up with scripture from both old and new testament. The contention of the original article, and, i gather, the rest of us on this thread is that there's too much preaching that doesn't involve the Word of God. Man-centered, frothy, amorphous, non-convicting preaching based on feelings and not His Holy Truth.
Which, if you go back and read my original post, I commented on how Osteen went 28 minutes into a 30 minute sermon before using a single passage from the Bible.