Getting the celebrity treatment
A friend passed this along.It's written by J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine. I've not heard of such celebrity treatment (see below). I wonder if this is more isolated than the author suggests:
"One friend of mine in Texas recently inquired to see if a prominent preacher could speak at her conference. The minister’s assistant faxed back a list of requirements that had to be met in order to book a speaking engagement. The demands included:
* a five-figure honorarium
* a $10,000 gasoline deposit for the private plane
* a manicurist and hairstylist for the speaker
* a suite in a five-star hotel
* a luxury car from the airport to the hotel (2004 model or newer)
* room-temperature Perrier
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I hope and pray you're right, Nancy; that this sort of thing is limited and isolated. Certainly, the extreme examples are.
But problems must arise when a group's entire theology and MO are built on emotion-driven manifestations. Tongues-speaking itself is, today, only erroneously conceived, emotional overload to start with, and easily becomes the engine behind all the manifold erros and excesses of the movement. And the guy who wants to be bowed down to is more akin to the magalomaniac, Simon, of Acts 8 than the Apostle Paul.
Posted on August 1, 2007 10:05 AM