Rock the River?

In THIS article, Baptist Press reports on the latest Franklin Graham Crusade. I have copied two excerpts below.

There were more than 65,000 in attendance, around 800 spiritual decisions made, 538 salvations, 300 decibels of sound, I was wearing 100 SPF sunscreen, I went through four quarts of water, and it all made for one remarkable day,” Bruce McCoy, president of the Missouri Baptist Convention and pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in St. Louis, said.

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“I heard Ruth Graham [Franklin's late mother] say that the bands and music artists attracted the fish to the pond so that Franklin could fish for souls there,” McCoy, chairman of counseling and follow-up for the event, said. “And it worked. They were able to bring in a lot of people who needed to hear the Gospel message.”

Hmm, too bad John the Baptist never heard of Sunscreen!  He could have ditched the camels hair!  And what about live entertainment, he really should have had the Saducees of Sound or the Pharisaical Five perform in between messages! Oh right, he sort of broke that relationship with Matthew 3:7-8

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

And underneath the applause of the mindless masses the hiss of the serpent can heard…

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