Featured About the worst Baptist preacher I ever heard...

Ummm ok?

we have no idea what you are talking about, nor whom?

 

It's not a sham or scam. Is "hooping" or "whooping". Real common with old line Pentecostals and IFB. Itshow they learned to preach. What they grew up hearing. It's annoying as fingernails on a chalk board, but it's all they know. They don't have bad intentions.

 

Or grab the tambourine and start banging it.

 

Is it against the rules? Joel Osteen and Andy Stanley get stump drug all the time on here.

 

Those Drs Lawyers and rocket scientists are not his intended audience.

 

Man I think the guy you are talking about lives in my town and has preached at my church....

 

Those are both extremely common words for some of us. I bet he uses "afeared" too.

As for why he switches dialects I'd bet it's this... Appalachian Code Switching - The Revivalist

I talk dumb and proper English when I'm on conference calls at work, or on here on the BB, or elsewhere.
When I'm with my neighbors, or on a fire call in my community, or in my Church I talk my normal English.

If you get me hot though, then I default to my normal English, regardless of which company I'm in.

 

I agree with your view. Why anyone, especially a preacher, would deliberately come across as if he's an illiterate bumpkin is beyond me. I can't imagine how he thinks this helps him spread the gospel. If he is well-educated, he should use his education. As a former Toastmaster, "uhh", "umm", "err" throughout a sermon (or any speech) is very distracting.

 

Guess y'all need to hang around some country folks and you will get it.

 

If it comes natural, I don't mind. Otherwise it feels like he's putting on a show. If it is just a show, it seems like it's more about his performance and not so much about preaching the Gospel. Of course, that's just my view. Growing up in northern Arkansas and living in east Texas, I've listened to many a country preacher with their poor English. When the bad grammar is genuine, I'm okay with that. I don't care for preaching with lots of yelling and hollering, even if it does come natural to the preacher.

 

I've heard a couple of these 'chanting' preachers with a 'rhythm' that are very good at it, it's not at all distracting and the message comes across very well. But they're the exception, I don't care for the style.

 

Common sense blooms in the illiterate bumpkin's garden more often than any college-educated garden. And that's a fact.

 

"Uhh,umm,err" is not what he is doing. He is not making sounds to fill time for him to think. I agree that it is aggravating. I also try to avoid preachers who do it, but to an old Pentecostal, it's like the comb over hair; can't get in the pulpit without it.

 

As does horrible heresy. Simply look at Joe Smith and Charles Taze Russell as well as Mary Baker Eddy.