The way this guy says them, though, shows how he gets along in his "conservative" church. His opinions may be 21st century, but his diction makes me feel like I'm reading Dickens!
". . . in a manner certainly not becoming of the previous covenant you all established . . .""Can you imagine the wonderment . . . "
"I plead my case to you and beg that you indeed endeavor. . . "
In wonderment, I indeed endeavored, though perhaps not becomingly, to overcome the cognitive dissonance inspired by this!
It bothers me to no end to see people write this way. When Pastors read a prayer they've wrote or such as this write a letter. There is no way on Gods green earth that they naturally speak this way. I hate hearing all those fancy/flowery words...give me some reality. Write and read how you talk.