Don't like Paul Washer?

A friend of mine recently had the idea of making copies of Paul Washer sermons to pass out: which he first heard that Pastor Jono Sims did (referred to at the true church conference). This friend also mentioned the cautious expressions he received from several pastors at the mention of Paul Washer. It seems that this preacher is one who has been blessed to fall under the 'either you love him or you hate him' category.

I also met two young brothers from a SBC seminary who were frustrated with all the contextualization being emphasized in their school. The president of the school actually likes Paul Washer but it seems clear that he wouldn't be invited to come and speak. Yet they would have such a shock-jock as Mark Driscoll come and make an impression upon up and coming preachers?!

I've come to two conclusions from this and i anticipate these conclusions offending some, but i see it as absolutely necessary and fruitful. If you don't like such a preacher as Paul Washer (i wouldn't limit this to one, but he's a good example) it's because you haven't listened much from him or you are a hypocrite!

How can i say such a thing? I say this because of all the talk of revival, i say this because of all the references to such as Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edwards, even Tozer and Ravenhill.

These men who were mightily used of God were by NO means tame and dignified, they were liable to explode with passion, to explode with pleadings, to explode with warnings, to explode with rebukes, and to explode with edification! I just can't stomach all the so-called respect to these men, when it's absolutely clear that if these men were alive today they wouldn't be allowed in the majority of pulpits! They wouldn't have been invited to the big conferences either, because they were more concerned with the glory of God, more concerned with the souls of men, than with feelings, popularity, and position!
Would you have been among those who LOCKED your doors (or your ears) to these men God was using in revival times? The answer has much to do with who would you like to invite into your church now.
I just can't stomach the attitude that prevails among leaders today, like i mentioned previously the people who are invited to speak at 'good' seminaries seem to always fit into the same category: successful and popular! Often men who can give in detail their 'strategy', their 'vision', their 'approach' and it's going to produce many just like them who will most likely become consumed with depression because they can't imagine fruit without numbers.
It's this attitude that I'm addressing, this attitude that can talk about uncompromisingly bold preaching but won't do that nor invite such preachers to your church. Throw away all those biographies and reports of revivals, throw away all those quotes from fireball preachers like Knox, like Mcheyne, like Bunyan and many more who would preach with such accuracy as they dug deeper and deeper to prick the consciouses of their hearers. The times are no different, unless you want to say that it's EVEN more needful today, for today is a day of cheap grace; a day of remarkable compromise, and of weak preaching!
I was able to speak to Paul Washer again at the true church conference and among the different topics, he made mention of how he was filling in for a church without a pastor; and that he was receiving comments of how he had changed in his preaching and so on. This because he was among hungry sheep without a shepherd who desired the pure milk of the word and was feeding them carefully. I would also like to tie this thought in with something I heard from Mark Dever, that a lot of his interns are shocked at some of the 'intimate and comforting' sermons of Jonathan Edwards because they assumed all his sermons were like 'sinners in the hand of an angry God'.
Now, that DOESN'T make any sense whatsoever, unless you know little of true preaching! I on the other hand WOULD assume that a fiery preacher could also overflow with deep love and nurture towards the flock of God. WHY? Because their is a time for everything, there is a time to build and a time to tear down. Sometimes the word will come as living water and sometimes as a hammer. There's NO SUCH THING as a TYPE of preacher, if a preacher can't "warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone" and "correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction" then he is NOT called to preach.
Christian leave your opinions to yourself, desire to be faithful to preach the whole truth, God's way.
Eggshell Christianity is what we have today, we have Christians that are masters in avoiding any and all rebuke. This of course has much to do with the incredible lack of church discipline performed in most churches. I've been in some churches for years and never seen any discipline: NEWSFLASH that's NOT good, that's inconsistent with biblical and historical church life!
Paul Washer's wife Charo made the comment before about how 'thin-skinned American Christians are' (and not in reference to her husband), is this true? Experience should reveal that it is, also the testimonies of the past and other countries often leave us thinking 'wow, that was really bold'. Isn't this why most of us absolutely love men like Tozer who have innumerable examples of 'in your face' rebukes. Now is it that you appreciate godly boldness (springing from true love and from a desire for God to be glorified) or is it a secret man-worship because you WON'T do the same and look at such a man with envy? hmm!