The Church Report - The 50 Most Influential Christians in America
i thought this list was interesting in that 32 (Leaonard Sweet) on this list is one of our clients. very cool.. but one of the funnier entries on this list was paul crouch jr. (29) maybe i am talking out of turn, but i remember seeing him in the 70’s on tbn (i think it was.. it was one of those channels.) and he would give his take on the presence of satan in music and pop culture at the time… his big things were back masking and dungeons and dragons. he is pretty much the reason i spent HOURS playing my records backwards.. the mustache tells me his views haven’t changed much since then.
i also remember seeing a story of a girl that was in bondage to satan. i guess the devil appeared in real life and dangled her over a cliff or something. she was a witch or wiccan or pagan turned jesus freak. it was my first exposure to crazy chicks.
although i can’t remember her name, she is the reason i spent a good deal of my youth chasing around crazy chicks. i do think her name had two syllables. i also bet five bucks she smelled like patchoulli..
25 - rob bell.. i have seen most of his NOOMA films. they rock the house. if i was gonna pick a faith, these guys deal would probably persuade a guy like me..
i like rob bell because he talks to guys like me. we take care of our business. we’re not hooked on drugs. we aren’t selling our bodies into porn for crack. we are just normal guys..
that is the stance that turned me off to most of the preaching pack. call me jaded, but i don’t really care about drug dealers, gangsters, prisoners, and prostitutes. they are all part of our society, but not a part that i want, need, or have time to deal with.
the problem i had with most approaches to christianity was that they would say something like:
see, even if you are a turd with a side of poop, and you are hooked on drugs and sell your butt to the dirty neighbor guy for coke, jesus will still love you..
well.. frankly.. who cares? that is not my world.. let’s hear something meaningful from someone in my world.
rob bell seems to fit that bill.
50 - dr. phil.. okay, i admit it.. when i turn on the tv before the simpsons at 6, i will flick to dr. phil to see what is up in the world of numbskulls. i like dr. phil MUCH better than jerRY! as the rejects on dr. phil’s show seem very real, and not staged. they are most likely staged, but for the time being, he is fooling me.