One of the worst characteristics of fundy preachers is their natural tendency to belittle others in their stories while inflating their own credentials.
Yikes! I KNOW him! I grew up in a fundy “Christian” school where he was the pastor. It was Forrest Hills Baptist Church’s Christian school in Stone Mountain, GA. He was the pastor of the church, which made him the divine overseer of the school, I guess. I remember hearing him preach in chapel many times. You’ll be glad to know he hasn’t changed a bit!
I remember one service (can’t remember what it was) where he ran all the way away around the auditorium. I was a little freaked out by that.
Hey! I even remember when he came with my class on our Senior Trip to Colorado. I remember weeping and wailing with him at the “altar” of a local Baptist church in Colorado. Want to know what the weird part was? There was no one else there but our senior class. I can’t even remember why we were there…I think we went there just to pray or something. So we knelt at the “altar” and we all prayed and wailed and cried together. It was fundy audience manipulation at its finest.
You may discuss amongst yourselves how many times his point was actually “about” heaven or hell, since most of his references to heaven are about the “kingdom of heaven” which is, apparently, at hand, not in heaven.
Yes, Brandon, you’re right. I spent a lot of time with Tom Farrell when I worked at the WILDS. I remember telling him that a message he had just preached was clearly not what the passage he used was about. Boy, he didn’t like that…at all! He had a very un-evangelist like attitude for me.
@Christopher, your problem is that you actually care what Jesus was talking about. Fundy evangelists only care about whether they can use Jesus to make a point.
Hmm. He didn’t reference any scripture, but referenced himself perhaps 60-70 times in that short clip (yes I did try to count). Also, reminds me of one of Darrell’s first classic posts…
I have to admit that I used to love this type of preaching at one point. But it only fed the emotions and didn’t produce any long-lasting spiritual growth in my life.
I call these “recursive sermons.” They’re mostly a collection of stories about other “wonderful” sermons the pastor has preached and how people reacted to them.
Brother @Darrell are you questioning the technology that the LORD has blessed our congregation with?
@Christopher such adherence to proper exegetics is going to get you nowhere fast in fundy land. I believe the good preacher and the dearly departed (insert whatever deceased Bible College president here) would remind you we only need ONE reference to hell to take it literally and “preach the hell out of it”!
Wow! More memories. I grew up on this kind of preaching. No Bible verses, just stacatto-type preaching at the same decibel level the entire 45 minutes. Usually it was a hell, fire, and damnation sermon…….Man, can’t believe how good it is to be away from that. We NEVER have any of those wacko evangelists and our preacher actually has an advanced seminary degree from an accredited, respected university. I don’t have to listen to how bad the country is and how much worse sin is today than it ever was and a whole lot of other things that seem to be the norm for the typical “fundy” church. Thank you God that BJU treated my family so badly we all left and found a new life.
He used to be our “staff evangelist” at NVBC in California, but the wicked influence of California got one of his kids kicked out of Bible college, so he moved back to the South.
Amen? Amen? Amen????
No… Horse feathers! Bull Hockey! Sit down and shut up before you do anymore damage to the cause of Christ!
Works, works, works…
My God! Shut him up! That’s too much crap to have to listen to in one sitting.
If anyone believes that is good preaching they need their head examined. Excrement like this passes for “anointed, inspired, preaching” in too many churches and keeps the hearers from the Truth found in God’s word.
A Pox, boils, plague, fleas and lice upon all the pozers in the pulpits of America and around the world that preach this crap.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
I think Don sums it up nicely. I’ve been out for so long I forget that this is CURRENT for some people. I know that I grew up very isolated (we did nothing BUT church, 7 days a week), but these poeple are online now, they watch tv…..how are they still swallowing this horsecrap???
This is the guy who inherited the mess left by Bill Pennell at Forrest Hills Baptist. Forrest Hills had become the “largest Sunday School” in Georgia in the early 70′s under Curtis Hutson (who took John R. Rice’s place at the Sword of the Lord). Pennell followed Hutson in 1977 (I was a member from 77-81). Church ran around 3000-4000 in Sunday School (1/2 to 2/3 were bus kids). I thought Pennell was the greatest preacher in the world. He even had a poster that he encouraged his people to buy. It had a big picture of Pennell with the words: “My Preacher,” “God’s Man,” “Our Hero”. He said kids ought to have posters like that in their rooms instead of rock stars or movie stars.
Sometime in the mid 80′s Pennell’s wife told the deacons about Bill’s many affairs (had been going for decades). She had been silent about them up until now because Bill would always tell her how much it would hurt the “cause of Christ” if she told anybody. When she did tell the deacons, at first, Bill told them she was having a nervous breakdown. Later when she produced proof, he admitted and resigned. His buddies Tim Lee, Jack Hyles and others of course defended him. He is now a “missionary”” in the Ukraine.
Lou Rossi followed Pennell and they sold the big campus in Decatur, GA and moved out to Stone Mountain and the attendance plummeted. Rossi left after a few years and someone else became Pastor.
I can assure all of you watching this clip that Rossi is the same every time he preaches – read a verse, talk about himself, preach about himself, use illustrations about himself. After every sermon I knew a lot about Lou and nothing about God (except that He really liked to work through Lou). Funny though, even in this video he silences naysayers with the old “if you disagree or don’t like me you must have secret sin in your heart” trick.
He was a regular at the fundy church I came out of. True piece of work.
@Jason “far fetched”??? I would go so far as to say fabricated, fictitious, fallacious, falsifications for fraudulent fellows to foster fear for the furtherance of fundyism.
1st, I will agree that his sermons can be shallow, but that is not an excuse to be a hypocritical pharisee.
Wow, all of you mock this man and yet you are the first to excuse worldiness of American Churches.
Either speak up and declare him a wolf or pray that God will open his eyes to see the anger inside. After hearing him, I dont think he is a wolf, I think he is a Christian that has an ager problem.
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OMG. I can’t take it. Looking forward to other comments. My head’s gonna explode listening to this clown.
Is there some requirement that all fundy videos sound like they’re in a Styrofoam cup?
They’re probably using one of these
Lou Rossi Has a Webcast! http://countdownrevival.com/webcast.php
Fun!
One of the worst characteristics of fundy preachers is their natural tendency to belittle others in their stories while inflating their own credentials.
Yikes! I KNOW him! I grew up in a fundy “Christian” school where he was the pastor. It was Forrest Hills Baptist Church’s Christian school in Stone Mountain, GA. He was the pastor of the church, which made him the divine overseer of the school, I guess. I remember hearing him preach in chapel many times. You’ll be glad to know he hasn’t changed a bit!
I remember one service (can’t remember what it was) where he ran all the way away around the auditorium. I was a little freaked out by that.
Hey! I even remember when he came with my class on our Senior Trip to Colorado. I remember weeping and wailing with him at the “altar” of a local Baptist church in Colorado. Want to know what the weird part was? There was no one else there but our senior class. I can’t even remember why we were there…I think we went there just to pray or something. So we knelt at the “altar” and we all prayed and wailed and cried together. It was fundy audience manipulation at its finest.
Let’s see…
Jesus mentions hell: 11 times
Jesus mentions heaven: 144 mentions
You may discuss amongst yourselves how many times his point was actually “about” heaven or hell, since most of his references to heaven are about the “kingdom of heaven” which is, apparently, at hand, not in heaven.
He reminds me of Tom Farrell – a big WILDS evangelist. Total waste of time.
Yes, Brandon, you’re right. I spent a lot of time with Tom Farrell when I worked at the WILDS. I remember telling him that a message he had just preached was clearly not what the passage he used was about. Boy, he didn’t like that…at all! He had a very un-evangelist like attitude for me.
@Christopher, your problem is that you actually care what Jesus was talking about. Fundy evangelists only care about whether they can use Jesus to make a point.
Hmm. He didn’t reference any scripture, but referenced himself perhaps 60-70 times in that short clip (yes I did try to count). Also, reminds me of one of Darrell’s first classic posts…
http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2008/12/evangelist-fish-stories/
I have to admit that I used to love this type of preaching at one point. But it only fed the emotions and didn’t produce any long-lasting spiritual growth in my life.
I call these “recursive sermons.” They’re mostly a collection of stories about other “wonderful” sermons the pastor has preached and how people reacted to them.
Brother @Darrell are you questioning the technology that the LORD has blessed our congregation with?
@Christopher such adherence to proper exegetics is going to get you nowhere fast in fundy land. I believe the good preacher and the dearly departed (insert whatever deceased Bible College president here) would remind you we only need ONE reference to hell to take it literally and “preach the hell out of it”!
No, Rob, it was I who questioned the Styrofoam cup-and-string apparently used to record this, um, event.
Wow! More memories. I grew up on this kind of preaching. No Bible verses, just stacatto-type preaching at the same decibel level the entire 45 minutes. Usually it was a hell, fire, and damnation sermon…….Man, can’t believe how good it is to be away from that. We NEVER have any of those wacko evangelists and our preacher actually has an advanced seminary degree from an accredited, respected university. I don’t have to listen to how bad the country is and how much worse sin is today than it ever was and a whole lot of other things that seem to be the norm for the typical “fundy” church. Thank you God that BJU treated my family so badly we all left and found a new life.
More preachin’ about preachin’
He used to be our “staff evangelist” at NVBC in California, but the wicked influence of California got one of his kids kicked out of Bible college, so he moved back to the South.
Amen? Amen? Amen????
No… Horse feathers! Bull Hockey! Sit down and shut up before you do anymore damage to the cause of Christ!
Works, works, works…
My God! Shut him up! That’s too much crap to have to listen to in one sitting.
If anyone believes that is good preaching they need their head examined. Excrement like this passes for “anointed, inspired, preaching” in too many churches and keeps the hearers from the Truth found in God’s word.
A Pox, boils, plague, fleas and lice upon all the pozers in the pulpits of America and around the world that preach this crap.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
I think Don sums it up nicely. I’ve been out for so long I forget that this is CURRENT for some people. I know that I grew up very isolated (we did nothing BUT church, 7 days a week), but these poeple are online now, they watch tv…..how are they still swallowing this horsecrap???
This is the guy who inherited the mess left by Bill Pennell at Forrest Hills Baptist. Forrest Hills had become the “largest Sunday School” in Georgia in the early 70′s under Curtis Hutson (who took John R. Rice’s place at the Sword of the Lord). Pennell followed Hutson in 1977 (I was a member from 77-81). Church ran around 3000-4000 in Sunday School (1/2 to 2/3 were bus kids). I thought Pennell was the greatest preacher in the world. He even had a poster that he encouraged his people to buy. It had a big picture of Pennell with the words: “My Preacher,” “God’s Man,” “Our Hero”. He said kids ought to have posters like that in their rooms instead of rock stars or movie stars.
Sometime in the mid 80′s Pennell’s wife told the deacons about Bill’s many affairs (had been going for decades). She had been silent about them up until now because Bill would always tell her how much it would hurt the “cause of Christ” if she told anybody. When she did tell the deacons, at first, Bill told them she was having a nervous breakdown. Later when she produced proof, he admitted and resigned. His buddies Tim Lee, Jack Hyles and others of course defended him. He is now a “missionary”” in the Ukraine.
Lou Rossi followed Pennell and they sold the big campus in Decatur, GA and moved out to Stone Mountain and the attendance plummeted. Rossi left after a few years and someone else became Pastor.
I can assure all of you watching this clip that Rossi is the same every time he preaches – read a verse, talk about himself, preach about himself, use illustrations about himself. After every sermon I knew a lot about Lou and nothing about God (except that He really liked to work through Lou). Funny though, even in this video he silences naysayers with the old “if you disagree or don’t like me you must have secret sin in your heart” trick.
He was a regular at the fundy church I came out of. True piece of work.
Yea, I’ve seen Lou Rossi. Like zippy mentioned, every sermon I ever heard him preach was the same.
@Brandon, LOL–maybe you’ll want to buy this new book:
http://www.strivingtogether.com/pages/preaching-that-pleases-God.html
Is it just me or are some of the stories told by fundy evangelists kind of far fetched?
@Jason “far fetched”??? I would go so far as to say fabricated, fictitious, fallacious, falsifications for fraudulent fellows to foster fear for the furtherance of fundyism.
Don made me LOL.
Can someone stick a sock in his mouth….I can’t hear the TV…a “real pastor” has the Bible open and we are actually studying God’s word..lol
1st, I will agree that his sermons can be shallow, but that is not an excuse to be a hypocritical pharisee.
Wow, all of you mock this man and yet you are the first to excuse worldiness of American Churches.
Either speak up and declare him a wolf or pray that God will open his eyes to see the anger inside. After hearing him, I dont think he is a wolf, I think he is a Christian that has an ager problem.