Civilized Preachers are Worthless!

The fact of the matter is that we will practically worship the men of old through whom God did great things—the Whitefields and everyone else. But we wouldn’t let them preach in our church nor teach some of the things they taught. Never forget this: The worst thing that could ever happen to a preacher, young man, is that he gets civilized. When he gets civilized and elegant and proper and respectable, he’s worthless! And that’s the problems with some of our seminaries. We’re wanting to produce these respectable intellectuals and these great reformed theologians, and all these different things… I do not see reformed theologians turning the world around. I see preachers who are reformed in themselves by the truth turning the world around. ~ Paul Washer (original audio here)