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Like many others on social networking platforms, I find myself drawn into watching reels or short form videos. Given my what I do, I come across quite a few church messages from pastors, both nationally (perhaps internationally) known and some that are not. While I find it refreshing to hear other messages, I have recently noticed something disturbing in many of these messages that turns me off to speakers who do this. The first reel I listened to today had the pastor begin his message with, “I believe hell is going to be filled with pastors.” I quickly moved on to the next reel, which featured some adult guys doing silly things, and found it much more enjoyable. What I'm referring to is pastors speaking out against other pastors, other churches, and even nationally known ones criticizing others by name in their sermons. Other churches make broad generalizations about other churches regarding their messages, etc. This leaves me wondering, what is this really proving? There's an...