We just had some friends visiting us today that are visiting Canada right now from Zambia. They were telling about Zambia which I find so fascinating because we intend to move overseas someday and I itch to know a little of what it will be like. Anyways, they were telling us that in Zambia there are two television channels that you can pick up without a satellite. One is the local station that is government run and doesn't always have programing available. The other is the trinity broadcasting network (TBN). How depressing. I just wish that my faith could have another name then Christianity so that I didn't have to associate with such an awful bastardization of what I love. It's not just the network that I hate being associated with but all the "Ra ra ra USA" and the "God will give us health and wealth" sort of Christianity that I despise. I think that TBN sort of represents it all and unfortunately is spreading the message to the world that that is what Christianity is all about.
About a year ago Joel and I went out and protested a Benny Hinn crusade that had come to town. It's so depressing to see so many people sucked in to such a crook and his schemes. We handed out pamphlets to people as they approached the stadium trying to educate them about the truth behind what they were about to see. Why are so many people sucked into this crap? The true church needs to stand up and speak out against these false prophets. When they are afraid to do so then people are going to be led astray because the silence of the church is a quiet affirmation of their messages. Also, the silence of the church to speak out against the false prophets means that the rest of the world will come to associate Christianity with the frauds because they don't know that there is anything different or any internal opposition.
I don't want my blog to become too whiney about the church but I must say that I'm frustrated. There is far too much navel gazing and far to little action. I know that TBN and their brand of Christianity is not true Christianity but I'm frustrated that so few people actually know this when it should be so obvious. The truth needs to get out and we need to spread it.
Posted by rose at April 29, 2006 07:04 PMPlease do not stop your work at (exposing) reproving the unfruitful works of darkness. It is only through consistent and clear sound doctrine that others might delivered from doctrines of devils, seducing spirits and the traditions of men. At times it may seem that your work is in vain but it is not. If only one or a few hear and ponder in their hearts what the word of God says compared to what the false ministers who have perverted God's word are saying, then the Holy Spirit can convict them of the truth as he did to me years ago. Never the less, each individual must decide in their own heart and mind who they are going to serve because many are called but only a few are chosen.
I have frequently protested the TBN studio in Mobile, Alabama and during the "praise-a-thon", I travel to the Atlanta, Georgia studio to protest.
The Crouch family knows who I am and their reprobate nephew John Casoria Jr., an attorney has written us a blasphemous letter as an attempt to take away our First Amendment Rights and stop our religious protest on the public right of way in front of the Atlanta studio.
We have some great video clips from the protest in Atlanta when the TBN chief of security Marvin Oglesby harassed us. Marvin Oglesby (who is a City of Atlanta Police Officer with homeland security) ordered me to leave the public right of way where I was standing claiming that it was TBN's private property and called the Dekalb County Police who falsely arrested my wife who was only video taping my protest. As a result we recently filed Attorneys Pro Se, a Federal 42 USC 1983 civil rights lawsuit against Marvin Oglesby and the Dekalb County Police Officers involved in the false arrest of my wife. We even have a video clip of Paul Crouch Jr. holding one of our signs that reads, "Plagues added to Jan."
Most importantly, is that I have been able to minister to and warn many who were going into that dog kennel (TBN Studio) and as a result there has been some who even turned from going in and even a few others who joined the religious protest there. To God be the Glory!