You Haven'T Got the Guts — E.A. Johnston

The Charge Against Timid Preaching

Now I'm gonna make a statement friends that I believe is true. But it won't endear me to anybody. But most folks don't like me anyhow. So here goes my statement. This is a statement addressed to pastors and evangelists in America today.

Preaching Christ's Lordship and the Duty of Repentance

You haven't got the guts. That's my statement. Now. Let me finish my sentence. You haven't got the guts to preach the Lordship of Jesus Christ and man's duty of repentance. And the reason why you haven't got the guts is because you fear man more than God.

Self-Preservation and the Loss of Courageous Evangelists

Now I believe friends. That's why we don't have a Sam Jones or a Mordecai ham today. Because we preachers are into self-preservation and we avoid Confrontation of any kind so we preach nice little messages that don't disturb anybody.

The Cost of Avoiding Hell and Apostasy

But the trouble is they don't save anybody either. We are content to see folks go to hell today. So long as we can preserve our reputations and our positions in our Denominations that we work so hard to get you haven't got the guts to preach that if Jesus is not your Lord then he was never your Savior because if you preach that message today in this day of the apostate church.

Warning Sinners to Repent

Then other men and ministry will call you a heretic and a good number of them will be of your denomination and you haven't got the guts to preach man's duty of repentance and tell men and Women and boys and girls that unless they repent they will bust hell wide open when the die even if they are the chairman of the deacons or the top dog of the denomination now know a few pastors and Evangelists who have the guts to preach these truths and they are doing so in this country today.

Ministers Who Fear People More Than God

But they are in a minority. Most ministers fear their people more than they fear the devil and they will preach soothing things. So not to rock the boat of their church. They will preach certain gospel truths.

The Hard Sayings of Christ

But it is in what they won't preach that sniffs them out as cowards. You don't have the guts to preach the hard sayings of Christ for fear. They will end up like Christ who when he preached hard sayings.

He preached his crowd away. And we can't have that because our crowd is tied To our self-esteem as preachers and too many of us preach for recognition and acceptance of the people we preach to we would rather keep them happy and satisfied in our Congregations and let them go on to hell then risk losing them by warning them of hell.

The Cowardice of Choosing Popularity Over Faithfulness

You haven't got the guts brother pastor, and you know it and the sad thing is You're okay with it.