The other night I heard a radio preacher tell his listeners that if a wife were to pray rightly (according to his outline of what that might be) he would “guarantee that their husbands would be saved.” Yes, he used the word “guarantee.”
That was a cruel thing to say. Think of all of the women who have prayed earnestly for their husband’s salvation who have never had them come to faith in Christ. He was not only wrong, he was thoughtless.
You might ask by what sort of exegesis (Bible interpretation), or what passage or passages of Scripture, he reached this conclusion? Absolutely none! He simply blurted out the words, He merely asserted. After all, what else is necessary when you are listening to a “famous evangelist,” like this preacher? Can you imagine how women like those I just mentioned, who trusted his word took this? If it were true—OK, they would have to cope with it. But the horrible fact is he was wrong! Terribly wrong. It wasn’t true. It was a totally unsupported lie!
I suppose it’s time again to warn against radio and TV preachers. There is much bad exegesis in many of their sermons (certainly,
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