Phil,
I'd love to read it.
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 10:43 AM
Subject: This Little Church Went To Market


>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.
>
>
> Victory isn't something you have, it is something you are.
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