Bingo! Hit the nail on the head. We need to unabashedly take back our pulpits. It is so refreshing to see that people are starting to wake up and speak out about what needs to be done in our churches.
My pet peeve about church, is that nobody gets dressed up for church anymore. I know I’m in a minority on that subject.
But I’m sure all of a certain age here, remember when men and boys wore suits to church, and girls and women wore nice dresses. Even at some of the more conservative or fundamentalist churches, there is no dress code anymore that I have seen. And I think that this is another matter, which has seeped in from the secular culture, which also has seen dress codes done away with in schools and the professional offices.
I know I’m a minority opinion, but, it can be unsightly to see people in tennis outfits and torn jeans in church. Flame away if you like, as I know I’m in the minority on this one. I know someone might say God wants us in church no matter how we are dressed. I’m just making an observation about how people don’t get dressed for church, and I don’t think that is a positive development.
You don’t want to take back those pulpits. Leave and find a pulpit where a man of God is preaching/teaching the Word of God (and nothing else) and all God’s people sitting there say “Amen”.