PASTOR JASPER WILLIAMS SCRATCHED NO EARS ITCHING IN ARETHA EULOGY
Preachers are supposed to address uncomfortable, discomfiting issues of sin, ungodly conduct in mankind.
Legendary Rev. Jasper Williams, who eulogized icon Aretha Franklin yesterday, as he had done for her iconic father before her , Rev. C. L. Franklin, did just that, discomfit!
He did not "scratch itching ears!" 2 Timothy 4:4! He did not placate, did not palliate, seek to please; neither did the Rev . Williams, the pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, offered perfumed excuses!
On the contrary, Williams used Aretha's "Queen of Soul" legend, epic, title as a spade of inquiry to dig deeply into, to incriminate, those "very dry bones now in the valley" of black America, and in the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, movement, itself. He said "black lives do not matter, until they matter to black people!"
He cited the black on black murder rates in urban areas to say that the black family and black community must return to living, as before, in accordance with the laws of God.
He said some modern urban black kids are behaving so badly, being abandoned from multiply troubled backgrounds that nothing, and that nobody can do anything with them, right now, but God; since seemingly their parents, preachers, teachers , social agencies and police all fail!
He boldly used the broken home of Aretha Franklin as an example of that phenomenon home-based tragedy that he was at times, desperately discussing. Aretha Franklin's mother and father had been divorced, in the 1950s, while she and her siblings were young.
Aretha's father was a massively popular, early, celebrity mass -media preacher, who was forced to delegate his custodial parental duties of child care to other folks .
From there, Rev. Jasper Williams "shifted" by analogy in his sermon, nee "eulogy," repeatedly, away from their most notable, wealthy Detroit, Michigan, Franklin family to the far-many-more-numerous, poor, black, broken, American families without similar spiritual nourishment.
In fact, in effect, syntactically, Aretha Franklin 's eulogy was used to make the broader case. The broader case was that although she was gifted with ever present spiritual nurture and divine musical genius, that others lacked, plus God in her family. That other families lacked God was all the more reason for such families to get right with God, the giver of all gifts!
And therefore unlike Aretha, who had God, and who had worked tenaciously to improve her gift, others who lacked her multiple gifts needed God all the more, for family guidance and hope!
He then built the case to show that upon the family, the city rests, on the city the state, on the state, the nation, and on the nation, the globe!
Therefore this great "whooper"--i.e. his style of sing-song, rhythmic-breathing, the preaching technique that is peculiar to certain genres of black churches--insisted: reviving, reinculcating , reinstating , reintroducing God into the "home" with a mother and a father present is certainly one of the most important ways to honor the life and legacy of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
Pastor Jasper Williams preached from his soul. He preached about the "Queen of Soul" as the topical subject. His definition of "soul," he explained, being that described by her father Rev. C L Franklin as a "living soul," from Genesis 2:7, after God had breathed the breath of life on man!
Amen
Saturday, September 1, 2018
NOT SCRATCHING ITCHING EARS
PASTOR JASPER WILLIAMS SCRATCHED NO EARS ITCHING IN ARETHA EULOGY
Preachers are supposed to address uncomfortable, discomfiting issues of sin, ungodly conduct in mankind.
Legendary Rev. Jasper Williams, who eulogized icon Aretha Franklin yesterday, as he had done for her iconic father before her , Rev. C. L. Franklin, did just that, discomfit!
He did not "scratch itching ears!" 2 Timothy 4:4! He did not placate, did not palliate, seek to please; neither did the Rev . Williams, the pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, offered perfumed excuses!
On the contrary, Williams used Aretha's "Queen of Soul" legend, epic, title as a spade of inquiry to dig deeply into, to incriminate, those "very dry bones now in the valley" of black America, and in the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, movement, itself. He said "black lives do not matter, until they matter to black people!"
He cited the black on black murder rates in urban areas to say that the black family and black community must return to living, as before, in accordance with the laws of God.
He said some modern urban black kids are behaving so badly, being abandoned from multiply troubled backgrounds that nothing, and that nobody can do anything with them, right now, but God; since seemingly their parents, preachers, teachers , social agencies and police all fail!
He boldly used the broken home of Aretha Franklin as an example of that phenomenon home-based tragedy that he was at times, desperately discussing. Aretha Franklin's mother and father had been divorced, in the 1950s, while she and her siblings were young.
Aretha's father was a massively popular, early, celebrity mass -media preacher, who was forced to delegate his custodial parental duties of child care to other folks .
From there, Rev. Jasper Williams "shifted" by analogy in his sermon, nee "eulogy," repeatedly, away from their most notable, wealthy Detroit, Michigan, Franklin family to the far-many-more-numerous, poor, black, broken, American families without similar spiritual nourishment.
In fact, in effect, syntactically, Aretha Franklin 's eulogy was used to make the broader case. The broader case was that although she was gifted with ever present spiritual nurture and divine musical genius, that others lacked, plus God in her family. That other families lacked God was all the more reason for such families to get right with God, the giver of all gifts!
And therefore unlike Aretha, who had God, and who had worked tenaciously to improve her gift, others who lacked her multiple gifts needed God all the more, for family guidance and hope!
He then built the case to show that upon the family, the city rests, on the city the state, on the state, the nation, and on the nation, the globe!
Therefore this great "whooper"--i.e. his style of sing-song, rhythmic-breathing, the preaching technique that is peculiar to certain genres of black churches--insisted: reviving, reinculcating , reinstating , reintroducing God into the "home" with a mother and a father present is certainly one of the most important ways to honor the life and legacy of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
Pastor Jasper Williams preached from his soul. He preached about the "Queen of Soul" as the topical subject. His definition of "soul," he explained, being that described by her father Rev. C L Franklin as a "living soul," from Genesis 2:7, after God had breathed the breath of life on man!
Amen