In the memoir of his first pastorate, Open Secrets , Richard Lischer remembers
his grandfather’s disenchantment with preachers started early:
“My grandfather and
his little brother hated it when the circuit rider came to town, because, since
their daddy was a deacon in the Methodist church, the visiting preacher always
stayed at their house and they had to shine the old bugger’s boots. The circuit
rider preached the same sermon every time he came, pummeled the same vices of
drinking and...
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