Letters to the Editor

Thank you for your Editorial, “Oprah’s ‘Jesus’” in the March 6 Witness.

You certainly revealed the truth and so many Christians have gotten involved in her “New Age Teaching” not realizing what it really is.

It is really sad to see the “most well-known woman in the world” affecting her “Bible Study” to many from Baptist Churches and that grieves me. Your article was factual and informing and I trust many (especially Baptists) will see the “Bible study” for what it really is and destroy it from their homes and resign their participation.

I give credit to Oprah for some of the work she is sponsoring among African children, but the real “good” that she does is “overshadowed” by her misrepresentation of who Jesus really is.

Thanks again for the editorial.

Thank you so much for the March 6 article, “‘Oprah’s Jesus.’” God has been very good to me and has kept me away from her show for several years now. With that separation came the perspective of who was actually glorified though her philanthropic endeavors, most definitely not God. When God allows me the opportunity I discourage her show to other women, and as you have suggested in your article, encourage them to read the Bible themselves to find the truth to get plugged in to a small group.

Jesus is the only way to God.

Our God is an awesome God who loves each one of us personally. This is a fact for me; I am nothing more than a filthy rag in His sight, but by the blood of Jesus Christ, I am washed as white as snow.

Praise be to My Lord Jesus Christ!

I’m angry! The pulpit—that sacred lectern which has no other meaning in common usage than the place from which a sermon is preached—is falling into the worst kind of ill repute because of the company it is keeping.

My life-long memory of my father’s pulpit was its inviolability to any message other than Christ crucified, buried and risen to glory. Its holy purpose was immune to any other than to bring men to salvation. The pulpit I knew was a symbol of coming to faith. It was the focus of sacred trust. It was Holy Ground.

What has happened? Today the sanctity of the pulpit has too often become a soapbox for politics, too often a place for self-aggrandizement. A place where the gospel of prosperity has replaced the Gospel of the cross, dead space from which flows little of substance and too much hot air. A desk of dishonor callously substituted for one of divine destiny. Laziness in the pulpit deprives congregations of well-prepared sermons. Deciding not to deliver any message at all deprives people of any faith words of hope, comfort, challenge. The unused pulpit is the saddest. It stands in lonely splendor on Sunday evenings behind locked doors. Its message of hope awaits another Sunday morning. Or it has been locked away in a dark closet.

Can the pulpit be restored to its place of single purpose? Its message, delivered in plain or lofty tones, is its sole reason for being. The centrality of the Savior is its sole argument for being. Any other use defames it.