MEN GIVING $110 MILLION A YEAR TO PROMISE KEEPERS

MEN GIVING $110 MILLION A YEAR TO PROMISE KEEPERS FOR INSTRUCTION THEY SHOULD BE RECEIVING IN THE CHURCHES

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April 13, 1996 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) -- Recently this Editor read a testimony by a Lutheran pastor who was questioning why so many men in his denomination (Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod) are enthralled with Promise Keepers. He made a very interesting statement which I want to quote for our readers. I will take the liberty to update the financial figure he used and to make a couple of other minor editorial changes:

"Why do I get the idea that somewhere along the line our men have been fleeced? Why do men have to take $110 million a year from their congregations [this is the amount Promise Keepers is receiving annually] and give it to a coach to give them the go ahead to do what their pastors have been urging them to do all along? Am I missing something? What is it in our men that disables their minds and spirits when the Word and the Spirit speak to them in the churches, but turns them on when they are in the sports arenas and a coach speaks to them?" (Pastor Carl Nelson, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Norwalk, California).