[Kolokotronis]

". I like it when he just quotes directly from scripture to make a point, instead of trying to "improve" on it."

I went to a Protestant service once. As I remember it, the preacher quoted from the bible a couple or three times and spent the rest of his 45 minute sermon fulminating with his own ideas about what the scripture meant. I thought the entire performance was heretical and ghastly, but I was assured that this fellow was well respected in Protestant circles.

[Forest Keeper]

I went to a Protestant service once. As I remember it, the preacher quoted from the bible a couple or three times and spent the rest of his 45 minute sermon fulminating with his own ideas about what the scripture meant.

I'm sorry you had that experience. I can really only speak for my own church, and it doesn't go that way at all, even if one disagrees with the theology. From my point of view it has always been consistent within itself.