“Voy a decir esto AUNQUE NO DIGAN AMEN!!!!”

If your pastor says this in his sermon, you know he’s serious.

It’s the reverse-psychology latino equivalent of “Can I get an Amen?” because just by saying the Amen’s have stopped only assures that people will say Amen to that. If a preacher has a low Amen-count in a service where the average Spanish preacher gets 112 Amens per sermon, all the preacher has to do is say this line, “Ya se acabaron los Amenes o que?” The crowd only has two ways to respond to this:

1. The pastor is really serious about something today.

2. Man, I need to help a brother out and give him an Amen.

Saying these lines indicate to the members of the congregation that the preacher is really serious about the topic. He’s so serious about it that he doesn’t care about the Amens and is happy to point out the fact that the Amens have stopped. It’s real talk.

But I have this question today: Since when have preachers preached for the approval of  people? Why are we so worried about getting an Amen that we have to acknowledge the fact that they’ve stopped? I have to admit, I have probably said this in a service just so that I can get a reaction from the people, but it has started to bother me that I’ve heard this over and over again. Amens were never meant for us.

Frankly, I don’t care if I get an Amen, cause it’s not about that. It’s about God’s word being proclaimed whether people respond by laughing, crying, shouting, or standing still. God’s Word won’t return void whether we have a million Amens or none. God will do what he has to do AUNQUE NO DIGAN AMEN!