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[quote author=samspade]
Odd you should mention him. His church is less than 2 miles from my office. It used to be a conservative SBC church with 2-3000 members. Ron Phillips had a change of heart, embraced the health and wealth gospel, and told anyone who didn't like it to leave. They became Abba's House and built a $17,000,000 building. All of that followed a sex scandal (while still conservative SBC) that saw their youth pastor go to prison for molesting young men in the youth group. I don't know if the scandal caused Ron Phillips to question the foundation of the church and take it in a different direction or not. It does look that way from the outside.
None of that has anything to do with the OP. I just find it an interesting story. Many of the people who left consider Ron Phillips an abusive dictator, while many who are there now consider him a pillar of the faith. Just like the endless arguments on these forums about certain pastors and the institutions they created/spearheaded.
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Yeah, I think that anybody who believes IFBs have a corner on egomania, or crushing people in the cogs of the machinery, are a wee bit naive and near-sighted.
Odd you should mention him. His church is less than 2 miles from my office. It used to be a conservative SBC church with 2-3000 members. Ron Phillips had a change of heart, embraced the health and wealth gospel, and told anyone who didn't like it to leave. They became Abba's House and built a $17,000,000 building. All of that followed a sex scandal (while still conservative SBC) that saw their youth pastor go to prison for molesting young men in the youth group. I don't know if the scandal caused Ron Phillips to question the foundation of the church and take it in a different direction or not. It does look that way from the outside.
None of that has anything to do with the OP. I just find it an interesting story. Many of the people who left consider Ron Phillips an abusive dictator, while many who are there now consider him a pillar of the faith. Just like the endless arguments on these forums about certain pastors and the institutions they created/spearheaded.
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Yeah, I think that anybody who believes IFBs have a corner on egomania, or crushing people in the cogs of the machinery, are a wee bit naive and near-sighted.
