The Baptist warned that such a teacher "often camps on eschatology, the doctrines of grace, evangelism, or whatever he is passionate or knowledgeable about while there is much remaining in God's Word that needs to be expounded." Next, Buice warned about "unbalanced" teachers who do not allow their ministry to be text-driven, but "camp out in one theme." Paul warned Timothy that his people would soon leave him for such preachers who would tickle the ears of the immature causing them to wander off into myths (2 Tim. "In most cases, the entertainer is paralyzed by the need to be liked by his congregation, and sadly he places more emphasis on pleasing people rather than pleasing God. He explained that while this type of pastor may leave people excited about the sermon, it doesn't leave them knowing God in a better way. This approach to ministry will often be very successful, but it's not spiritually profitable," he added, without naming names. "Today it's not at all uncommon to have pastors dressing up in costumes to "perform" their sermon rather than preaching the text. Whatever the people want, they will get it under the leadership of an entertainer," Buice said Thursday on his DeliveredByGrace blog. "The entertainer is really a pragmatist at heart. Josh Buice, senior pastor of Pray's Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia, and founder and director of the theological G3 Conference, first identified "the entertainer" as someone who is "a hindrance to the local church's sanctification and growth in grace." He recently outlined the characteristics of pastors that believers should be wary of.
A Baptist pastor and founder of the G3 Conference believes there are three main types of pastors who hinder, rather than help the Christian church.
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