Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Jonterius Tate preached at Jamal Bryant’s church, New Birth, and this is another example of what is wrong with so much modern preaching today.
A lot of these sermons are full of emotion, performance, yelling, crowd work, organ runs, dramatic pauses, and hype — but when you actually listen closely, there is very little biblical substance. People leave excited, but not equipped. They leave emotional, but not instructed. They leave shouting, but not necessarily understanding the Word of God any better.
That is a serious problem.
Preaching is not supposed to be a performance. Preaching is supposed to explain the Scriptures, exalt Christ, call sinners to repentance, build up the church, and help people understand how to live faithfully before God. But many churches today have confused energy with anointing and volume with truth.
Original video: youtube.com/live/Ps2WQC-trqA?si=4kFpqzgh6I3F4IMk
Just because someone can make a crowd respond does not mean they are rightly handling the Word of God.
Jonterius Tate’s style represents a larger issue in church culture where sermons are judged by how emotional they are instead of how biblical they are. If the preacher can hoop, holler, make the room scream, and create a viral moment, people call it powerful. But where was the exposition? Where was the doctrine? Where was the actual teaching? Where was Christ clearly preached from the text?
The Bible does not command pastors to entertain the crowd. The Bible commands them to preach the Word.
2 Timothy 4:2 says:
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”
That means preaching should involve instruction. It should involve correction. It should involve doctrine. It should involve faithfully explaining what God has actually said.
But what we are seeing in many pulpits is something different. We are seeing sermons that are built around emotional release rather than biblical understanding. We are seeing people use Scripture as a launching pad for motivational speeches. We are seeing churches celebrate charisma while ignoring whether the message was faithful to the text.
And when this happens at a major church like New Birth, under Jamal Bryant’s leadership, it matters. Because these platforms influence thousands of people. What gets celebrated there gets copied elsewhere. Younger preachers watch this and think ministry is about delivery, cadence, applause, and crowd control instead of biblical faithfulness.
The church does not need more performers.
The church does not need more viral preaching clips.
The church does not need more sermons that sound powerful but say very little.
The church needs the Word of God.
Emotion is not automatically wrong. Passion is not automatically wrong. A preacher can be passionate and still be biblical. But emotion cannot replace exposition. Hype cannot replace holiness. A loud close cannot replace sound doctrine.
If people can listen to an entire sermon and walk away with no clearer understanding of the passage, no deeper view of Christ, no conviction of sin, no call to repentance, and no real biblical teaching, then what did they actually receive?
That is why sermons like this need to be tested.
We are not judging preaching by personal preference. We are asking biblical questions:
Was the text explained?
Was Christ exalted?
Was doctrine taught?
Were people called to repentance and obedience?
Did the sermon help the church grow in truth?
Or was it just an emotional moment?
Because if all a sermon does is stir people up without grounding them in Scripture, then it may be exciting, but it is not helpful.
Jonterius Tate preaching at Jamal Bryant’s New Birth is another reminder that the church must stop confusing emotional preaching with biblical preaching.
Let’s talk about it.
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Jonterius Tate preached at Jamal Bryant’s church, New Birth, and this is another example of what is wrong with so much modern preaching today.
A lot of these sermons are full of emotion, performance, yelling, crowd work, organ runs, dramatic pauses, and hype — but when you actually listen closely, there is very little biblical substance. People leave excited, but not equipped. They leave emotional, but not instructed. They leave shouting, but not necessarily understanding the Word of God any better.
That is a serious problem.
Preaching is not supposed to be a performance. Preaching is supposed to explain the Scriptures, exalt Christ, call sinners to repentance, build up the church, and help people understand how to live faithfully before God. But many churches today have confused energy with anointing and volume with truth.
Original video: youtube.com/live/Ps2WQC-trqA?si=4kFpqzgh6I3F4IMk
Just because someone can make a crowd respond does not mean they are rightly handling the Word of God.
Jonterius Tate’s style represents a larger issue in church culture where sermons are judged by how emotional they are instead of how biblical they are. If the preacher can hoop, holler, make the room scream, and create a viral moment, people call it powerful. But where was the exposition? Where was the doctrine? Where was the actual teaching? Where was Christ clearly preached from the text?
The Bible does not command pastors to entertain the crowd. The Bible commands them to preach the Word.
2 Timothy 4:2 says:
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”
That means preaching should involve instruction. It should involve correction. It should involve doctrine. It should involve faithfully explaining what God has actually said.
But what we are seeing in many pulpits is something different. We are seeing sermons that are built around emotional release rather than biblical understanding. We are seeing people use Scripture as a launching pad for motivational speeches. We are seeing churches celebrate charisma while ignoring whether the message was faithful to the text.
And when this happens at a major church like New Birth, under Jamal Bryant’s leadership, it matters. Because these platforms influence thousands of people. What gets celebrated there gets copied elsewhere. Younger preachers watch this and think ministry is about delivery, cadence, applause, and crowd control instead of biblical faithfulness.
The church does not need more performers.
The church does not need more viral preaching clips.
The church does not need more sermons that sound powerful but say very little.
The church needs the Word of God.
Emotion is not automatically wrong. Passion is not automatically wrong. A preacher can be passionate and still be biblical. But emotion cannot replace exposition. Hype cannot replace holiness. A loud close cannot replace sound doctrine.
If people can listen to an entire sermon and walk away with no clearer understanding of the passage, no deeper view of Christ, no conviction of sin, no call to repentance, and no real biblical teaching, then what did they actually receive?
That is why sermons like this need to be tested.
We are not judging preaching by personal preference. We are asking biblical questions:
Was the text explained?
Was Christ exalted?
Was doctrine taught?
Were people called to repentance and obedience?
Did the sermon help the church grow in truth?
Or was it just an emotional moment?
Because if all a sermon does is stir people up without grounding them in Scripture, then it may be exciting, but it is not helpful.
Jonterius Tate preaching at Jamal Bryant’s New Birth is another reminder that the church must stop confusing emotional preaching with biblical preaching.
Let’s talk about it.
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