A lady I pray with is quite a reader.  She ran across a book by the title
given in my subject line.  She is going to read it to me because, based upon
what she has read and told me so far, here is a guy that isn't afraid to
speak the truth.  I just wish I would have thought of the title before he
did.  He graduated from Moodey bible many years ago and is a pastor and has
been for many years.  I looked the book up on the internet and read some
reviews.  He isn't well liked, as you can imagine, by those who have fallen
into the trap of marketing the church as a business but what else is knew.
Promise Keepers is having their big annual Denver meeting this weekend.  I
began speaking out about Promise Keepers before they even had enough money
to get the ministry off the ground to conduct there first big public
meeting.  A local Christian paper would not even print my article because
you don't judge those who have just won a national football championship.
Except for me, of course, and I still love listening to the Colorado
University football games.  Go figure.  Yes, I still have the article on my
website.  My most hated article, by my global readership, as it were, is the
one I wrote on the Power Team which I called the True Power Team.  You would
not believe the emails, and yes phone calls, I get on that article on a
regular bases.  My second most hated article is the one on the Promise
Keepers.  Although I disagreed with about 99 percent of everything Dave Hunt
wrote years ago in his book called The Seduction of Christianity, his
overall primus frankly wasn't wrong.  Well, I've preached long enough so
time to pass the offering plate.  No wonder nobody likes me, I can hear
someone saying.  I'm not as mean as I sound so cut me some slack, if you
can, that is.  If you can get a hold of the book, This Little Church Went To
Market, or maybe it is Goes To Market, you might find it worth reading.
Then again, you may not.

Phil.


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