Comments on: A whiff of something unholy - preacher Chris Harvey using drug on congregations? http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/09/13/a-whiff-of-something-unholy-preacher-chris-harvey-using-drug-on-congregations/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:16:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: BD http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/09/13/a-whiff-of-something-unholy-preacher-chris-harvey-using-drug-on-congregations/#comment-93297 BD Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:47:16 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3411#comment-93297 It will be, thanks for the reminder to follow up. It got a lot of attention, but then again so did Peter Popoff in his day, and he is back selling all kinds of things and making a lot of money again as if he never faked a thing. Airborne Mickey Finn...ar arrr arrrr! It will be, thanks for the reminder to follow up.

It got a lot of attention, but then again so did Peter Popoff in his day, and he is back selling all kinds of things and making a lot of money again as if he never faked a thing.

Airborne Mickey Finn…ar arrr arrrr!

]]> By: Mark Byron http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/09/13/a-whiff-of-something-unholy-preacher-chris-harvey-using-drug-on-congregations/#comment-93290 Mark Byron Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:52:56 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3411#comment-93290 It would be interesting if someone had managed to come up with a knockout gas that was odorless and passed himself off as a Pentecostal minister; he'd get credit for all the folks getting "Slain in the spirit" in his services and get a quick following. There are serious Pentecostals out there; Joel Stocker, the pastor of my sister's Assembly of God church in Michigan, can exegete a sermon with the best of them. He would give very Biblically sound and long sermons; he often joked that we weren't going to "beat the Baptists out to lunch." However, the breed can be prone to the emotional and experiential; the people that put on a good show often do much better than the serious preachers. Throw in a airborne Mickey Finn that people could mistake for getting wobbly in the Spirit, and interesting things could happen. We'll see how this story goes. It would be interesting if someone had managed to come up with a knockout gas that was odorless and passed himself off as a Pentecostal minister; he’d get credit for all the folks getting “Slain in the spirit” in his services and get a quick following.

There are serious Pentecostals out there; Joel Stocker, the pastor of my sister’s Assembly of God church in Michigan, can exegete a sermon with the best of them. He would give very Biblically sound and long sermons; he often joked that we weren’t going to “beat the Baptists out to lunch.”

However, the breed can be prone to the emotional and experiential; the people that put on a good show often do much better than the serious preachers. Throw in a airborne Mickey Finn that people could mistake for getting wobbly in the Spirit, and interesting things could happen.

We’ll see how this story goes.

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