- December 9th, 2009, 10:16 am
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I've probably seen and heard Perry speak (either live or online) 15 sermons this year. As far as I can remember, I've heard him cuss one time, and he was repeating something someone else said. He does use the word "p iss" a lot, but I'm not sure I would say he routinely swears, although I've probably only heard about 1/3 of his sermons this year.
I think he is very relevant to his congregation. From what I understand (I've never visited NS), he has a large number of college kids with Clemson being so close. His sermons are often geared toward the 22-35 year old crowd. He just finished a 5 week series on being single. In my personal opinion, he isn't a great communicator yet, but much of his content is spot on for our culture. I posted a specific sermon of his in an earlier post above, and it was probably the best presented sermon I have heard that talked about being single and being married. He breaks down the method used by Abraham and his servant, and how it is relevant in how singles should choose their mate. GREAT stuff that my college class has been talking about all week (we watched it last Wednesday). I can understand the perception of him trying to "be hip", but I think he genuinely is hip and thus the "cultish/rock star" perception that he has.
kiltsareitchy07 wrote:I've also heard that Perry routinely swears in his sermons for the sake of being hip or "culturally relevant"
I've probably seen and heard Perry speak (either live or online) 15 sermons this year. As far as I can remember, I've heard him cuss one time, and he was repeating something someone else said. He does use the word "p iss" a lot, but I'm not sure I would say he routinely swears, although I've probably only heard about 1/3 of his sermons this year.
I think he is very relevant to his congregation. From what I understand (I've never visited NS), he has a large number of college kids with Clemson being so close. His sermons are often geared toward the 22-35 year old crowd. He just finished a 5 week series on being single. In my personal opinion, he isn't a great communicator yet, but much of his content is spot on for our culture. I posted a specific sermon of his in an earlier post above, and it was probably the best presented sermon I have heard that talked about being single and being married. He breaks down the method used by Abraham and his servant, and how it is relevant in how singles should choose their mate. GREAT stuff that my college class has been talking about all week (we watched it last Wednesday). I can understand the perception of him trying to "be hip", but I think he genuinely is hip and thus the "cultish/rock star" perception that he has.