In our very modern, very secularized age, few people are still exposed to real preachers.  Preachers are people (usually men) who have an important message for those who haven’t heard it.  Or if they have heard it, they haven’t converted to it.  A preacher is a persuader, one who employs emotive language and rhetorical flourishes to convince an audience that they need to change their path, change direction.  Even repent. Some of the best American preachers have been country boys who used the cadence and charm of the Southern dialect and phrasing to move millions.  Billy Graham and Martin Luther King are two of the best examples.  Billy Graham was an old-school gospel preacher but was so effective in his style and delivery that he filled the largest stadiums in the world for months at a stretch, just preaching. Martin Luther King also started as a preacher of the gospel but became the voice of the civil rights movement in the...(Read Full Post)