I always maintain that a preacher should/must preach as the Holy Spirit leads. However, I (and I am sure many others!) get distracted by preachers/evangelists/bible teachers who follow every sentence with "Praise God (Bwana asifiwe)".
Let me give an example of a verbatim message from a preacher:
"Let us turn to our Bibles and read from the Gospel of Mark Chapter 2 starting from verse 5 to 7 and I will read, praise God. When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee praise God.
Verses 6 and 7 tells us: But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, praise God. Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Praise God. Who can forgive sins but God only? Praise God/Bwana asifiwe"
The preacher continues:
"What Mark is telling us, praise God is that as Jesus entered into Capernaum, one sick of the palsy was brought to Him, praise God and because praise God, He saw their faith, praise God......"
The point I am labouring to bring out here is that too frequent interjections of "Praise God" may at times cause message mix-up and may at times tend to derail the flow of Word intake by the congregation.
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