an epidemic?

Posted on Monday 18 December 2006


A recent public records search* uncovered the home values of some of the Cardinals of the Evangelical Vatican. According to Jesus ("Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:24) all of the following people are probably going to hell…

Dr. James Dobson
$1,252,522.00**

Dobson_dr_james Presents a daily radio program called Focus on the Family on over 6,000 stations worldwide in more than a dozen languages. He is chairman of the board of a nonprofit organization of the same name, which he founded in 1977. His programs are estimated to be heard by more than 200 million people every day in 164 countries

Ted Haggard
$617,795.00

Ted_haggard123SENIOR PASTOR

Pastor Ted Haggard is was the president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the largest evangelical group in America. He is was also founder and senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He formed and serves served as the president of both the Association of Life-Giving Churches, a network of local churches, and worldprayerteam.org, the only real-time global prayer network.

Christopher Beard
$365,136.00

Christopher_beardChristopher Beard is was the Director of twentyfourseven, an intense leadership program based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has a Business degree from Oral Roberts University and a Masters in Christian Counseling. Christopher worked at one of the nation’s leading mental institutions as a Psychotherapist before coming to New Life Church and twentyfourseven. Christopher is was also the Missions Pastor of New Life Church, and has led mission trips to 53 countries. His heart’s desire is to see young people live effective and successful lives for Jesus Christ.

*   elpasoco.com  Assessor’s Office.
** Indicates combined value of multiple residential properties or tracts of adjoining land to a main residence located within El Paso County, Colorado.
This is from a March 2006 post on NEWSPEAK!. He’d looked up the home values for some of the Evangelicals in Colorado Springs. But who is this new face I’ve unearthed? Why it’s Christopher Beard, who made the news today:

An executive staff member at New Life Church in Colorado Springs has resigned after admitting to sexual misconduct and other mistakes – the result of an examination of the staff’s moral makeup after the ouster of senior pastor Ted Haggard, a church official said Sunday.

Christopher Beard, who headed a ministry that trained young adults in leadership skills, stepped down Friday after admitting to "a series of decisions displaying poor judgment, including one incident of sexual misconduct several years ago," said Rob Brendle, an associate pastor at the 14,000- member church.

Citing confidentiality over personnel issues, Brendle would not discuss the nature of the sexual misconduct except to say it did not involve Haggard or a minor.

Looks like we’ve got a full scale epidemic going on in Evangelical Colorado Springs. Reckon it’s something in the water? Glad it wasn’t Haggard or a child. Suppose they’d have said it "wasn’t a male" if that were the case?

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