Pastor's School Memories

[Binaca Chugger]

Church with a heart is the year that sticks out the most for me, after the pickles.

I wonder how many years they did "The Church With a Heart"?

Was it really done more than once?  Was I there for more than one PS using this theme?

Yikes!

I must be losing it.

I mean, I remember what I was wearing on my one date with Ed Russ. 

I recall being at a huge building that I rode to in a van with other Bible Club workers driven by Jim Wertz.  We had to wait under some bleachers out of view and then walk across the stage holding Bible Club signs with some of our kids. 

Afterwards, Bro. Jim took us out to Shakey's. 

I've seen it twice.  Once at FBCH and once at the Civic Center.

After the initial marathon version, there was a video version, then shortened versions to just highlight the various ministries.

You're thinking of this?


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Yes.  They also had the Hammond civic center presentation where they walked out every bus kids they could find.  The marathon session.

The following year they had a ministry parade where the had just a few people from each ministry walk out. 

Supposedly, by walking across a platform we were inspiring the nation and saving the world.  However, it sure felt like we were being used as show and tell pieces to brag about how much better we were than the rest of the world.  You know, "don't you wish you were like us?"  At least, that's how we felt about it. 

Did anyone ever leave those parades being inspired or making a spiritual decision?

 

[Binaca Chugger]

Did anybody enjoy watching the Passover feast?

 

[LongGone]

Church with a heart is the year that sticks out the most for me, after the pickles.

I wonder how many years they did "The Church With a Heart"?

Was it really done more than once?  Was I there for more than one PS using this theme?

Yikes!

I must be losing it.

I mean, I remember what I was wearing on my one date with Ed Russ. 

I recall being at a huge building that I rode to in a van with other Bible Club workers driven by Jim Wertz.  We had to wait under some bleachers out of view and then walk across the stage holding Bible Club signs with some of our kids. 

Afterwards, Bro. Jim took us out to Shakey's. 

I've seen it twice.  Once at FBCH and once at the Civic Center.

After the initial marathon version, there was a video version, then shortened versions to just highlight the various ministries.

You're thinking of this?


[youtube]tifnWiEgWgE[/youtube]

Yes.  They also had the Hammond civic center presentation where they walked out every bus kids they could find.  The marathon session.

The following year they had a ministry parade where the had just a few people from each ministry walk out. 

Supposedly, by walking across a platform we were inspiring the nation and saving the world.  However, it sure felt like we were being used as show and tell pieces to brag about how much better we were than the rest of the world.  You know, "don't you wish you were like us?"  At least, that's how we felt about it. 

Did anyone ever leave those parades being inspired or making a spiritual decision?
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I do remember being inspired by it the first time I saw it in 1974. I was young and thought I was called to preach. I wanted to reach people for Christ and FBCH seemed to be doing it better than I had ever seen.

 

[16KJV11]

Evening meeting in Chicago at the International Amphitheater.

Built to host the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater was commissioned in 1934 by Frederick Henry Prince, then head of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company.


Remember breathing in all the dung dust from the rodeo earlier in the week. I choke and get breathing spasms just thinking about it.

What were we thinking?

Didn't Jack Van Impe preach that night? I was a kid and can't remember for sure, but somehow that pops in my head.

Not that night.  By then, we were in stark contrast to him.  JVI was about a decade earlier.

I believe it was Curtis Hutson.

92 or 93?  I was there.

March 18, 1993, the Thursday Night Closing Session

The echo there was awful.

 

[Bruh]

Ole boy walked into a room of 21 students and a nun and 21 students got saved and the nun. LOL!!

That's some good stuff right there.

 

[Binaca Chugger]

Evening meeting in Chicago at the International Amphitheater.

Built to host the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater was commissioned in 1934 by Frederick Henry Prince, then head of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company.


Remember breathing in all the dung dust from the rodeo earlier in the week. I choke and get breathing spasms just thinking about it.

What were we thinking?

Didn't Jack Van Impe preach that night? I was a kid and can't remember for sure, but somehow that pops in my head.

Not that night.  By then, we were in stark contrast to him.  JVI was about a decade earlier.

I believe it was Curtis Hutson.

92 or 93?  I was there.

March 18, 1993, the Thursday Night Closing Session

The echo there was awful.

They hired a professional group to do the PA whose claim to fame was many of the large rock n roll events in Chicago.  They had just done the pa for Grateful Dead at Soldier Field before the FBC event.  I guess EL knew them.    Watching their responses to everything was at first comical.  Then it became annoying when they realized they had set up the place completely wrong for the venue and could not fix it.  Lastly, they just didn't care.  We kept telling the message, but they actually left.  They hated the music and refused to be in the service.  They just left t h e FBC guy on their board and took off until it was over.  We knew their were allot of frustrated delegates and potentially people who would not get saved because they could not hear the message.

 

[16KJV11]

Evening meeting in Chicago at the International Amphitheater.

Built to host the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater was commissioned in 1934 by Frederick Henry Prince, then head of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company.


Remember breathing in all the dung dust from the rodeo earlier in the week. I choke and get breathing spasms just thinking about it.

What were we thinking?

Didn't Jack Van Impe preach that night? I was a kid and can't remember for sure, but somehow that pops in my head.

Not that night.  By then, we were in stark contrast to him.  JVI was about a decade earlier.

I believe it was Curtis Hutson.

92 or 93?  I was there.

March 18, 1993, the Thursday Night Closing Session

The echo there was awful.

They hired a professional group to do the PA whose claim to fame was many of the large rock n roll events in Chicago.  They had just done the pa for Grateful Dead at Soldier Field before the FBC event.  I guess EL knew them.    Watching their responses to everything was at first comical.  Then it became annoying when they realized they had set up the place completely wrong for the venue and could not fix it.  Lastly, they just didn't care.  We kept telling the message, but they actually left.  They hated the music and refused to be in the service.  They just left t h e FBC guy on their board and took off until it was over.  We knew their were allot of frustrated delegates and potentially people who would not get saved because they could not hear the message.

I am surprised there was not more preparation to avoid that kind of situation, like doing some singing and speaking with people sitting at strategic points all over the auditorium.

 

[Binaca Chugger]

Evening meeting in Chicago at the International Amphitheater.

Built to host the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater was commissioned in 1934 by Frederick Henry Prince, then head of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company.


Remember breathing in all the dung dust from the rodeo earlier in the week. I choke and get breathing spasms just thinking about it.

What were we thinking?

Didn't Jack Van Impe preach that night? I was a kid and can't remember for sure, but somehow that pops in my head.

Not that night.  By then, we were in stark contrast to him.  JVI was about a decade earlier.

I believe it was Curtis Hutson.

92 or 93?  I was there.

March 18, 1993, the Thursday Night Closing Session

The echo there was awful.

They hired a professional group to do the PA whose claim to fame was many of the large rock n roll events in Chicago.  They had just done the pa for Grateful Dead at Soldier Field before the FBC event.  I guess EL knew them.    Watching their responses to everything was at first comical.  Then it became annoying when they realized they had set up the place completely wrong for the venue and could not fix it.  Lastly, they just didn't care.  We kept telling the message, but they actually left.  They hated the music and refused to be in the service.  They just left t h e FBC guy on their board and took off until it was over.  We knew their were allot of frustrated delegates and potentially people who would not get saved because they could not hear the message.

I am surprised there was not more preparation to avoid that kind of situation, like doing some singing and speaking with people sitting at strategic points all over the auditorium.

Not with that group.  They knew one thing:  loud.  They were not prepared for what the venue would be.  Stinkin' metalheads.

 

[TonyHutsonComedian]

Where to begin.....

Jack Hyles wearing sunglasses.

Jack Schaap "This is your life" video where he told everyone that teenagers need to be focused on Christ instead of making money.

Tony Hutson being Tony Hutson.

Larry Brown climbing the pulpit thinking he was the Prophet Elijah.

Larry Brown smashing a television.

Tony Hutson telling fat jokes ;D ;D ;D

 

[AlvinMartinezVoice]

Alvin Martinez singing at Pastor's School and Jack Schaap singing his praises 8)

What about Al Lacey's sermon "Jesus The Author" followed by Jack Hyles opinion of PCC.

Yeah I love Tony Hutson too. He's a world famous comedian.

 

[IFB X-Files]

Where to begin.....

Jack Hyles wearing sunglasses.

Jack Schaap "This is your life" video where he told everyone that teenagers need to be focused on Christ instead of making money.

Tony Hutson being Tony Hutson.

Larry Brown climbing the pulpit thinking he was the Prophet Elijah.

Larry Brown smashing a television.

Tony Hutson telling fat jokes ;D ;D ;D

You know, Mr. Martinez Voice Tony Hutson, you REALLY have a serious problem.

 

[RAIDER]

Where to begin.....

Jack Hyles wearing sunglasses.

Jack Schaap "This is your life" video where he told everyone that teenagers need to be focused on Christ instead of making money.

Tony Hutson being Tony Hutson.

Larry Brown climbing the pulpit thinking he was the Prophet Elijah.

Larry Brown smashing a television.

Tony Hutson telling fat jokes ;D ;D ;D

I will be merciful on you because you are a newbie.  Please read the very first post of this thread.  We request one memory per post.  It's all about the numbers.  The quicker you learn that, the better off you will be.

 

[RAIDER]

Alvin Martinez singing at Pastor's School and Jack Schaap singing his praises 8)

What about Al Lacey's sermon "Jesus The Author" followed by Jack Hyles opinion of PCC.

Yeah I love Tony Hutson too. He's a world famous comedian.

Because you are not a newbie, but rather a total idiot, I must tell you to read the OP.  One memory per post!!!!!

 

[TidesofTruth]

Where to begin.....

Jack Hyles wearing sunglasses.

Jack Schaap "This is your life" video where he told everyone that teenagers need to be focused on Christ instead of making money.

Tony Hutson being Tony Hutson.

Larry Brown climbing the pulpit thinking he was the Prophet Elijah.

Larry Brown smashing a television.

Tony Hutson telling fat jokes ;D ;D ;D

I will be merciful on you because you are a newbie.  Please read the very first post of this thread.  We request one memory per post.  It's all about the numbers.  The quicker you learn that, the better off you will be.

Not a Newbie . . .

. . . A Sock puppet or puppets conversing with each other.

 

[Walt]

Ah, yes, the made-up doctrine to "get" John McArthur.

You don't have to agree with the doctrine of the literal blood in Heaven but Bro. Hyles did not make it up. I've got a book in my office by J. Vernon McGee that references it in a positive way several decades earlier. Falwell believed it too. So do it, FWIW.

Noted. I read that the "doctrine" of the blood preserved eternally fresh upon the altar in heaven was not to  be found in any message anywhere until it came out to "get" McArthur.  I believe that people for a long time believed that Jesus presented His blood at the heavenly altar, but did J. Vernon McGee say that it was preserved fresh?

 

[bgwilkinson]

Ah, yes, the made-up doctrine to "get" John McArthur.

You don't have to agree with the doctrine of the literal blood in Heaven but Bro. Hyles did not make it up. I've got a book in my office by J. Vernon McGee that references it in a positive way several decades earlier. Falwell believed it too. So do it, FWIW.

Noted. I read that the "doctrine" of the blood preserved eternally fresh upon the altar in heaven was not to  be found in any message anywhere until it came out to "get" McArthur.  I believe that people for a long time believed that Jesus presented His blood at the heavenly altar, but did J. Vernon McGee say that it was preserved fresh?

What  kind of blood is believed to be in heaven?

Is it  human and temporal or is it divine and eternal?

Who collected it?

When was it brought to heaven?

Are sacrifices going on now or will they go on in the future for eternity?

What scriptural support is there that clearly teaches what goes on in heaven with the blood of Jesus?

Is it in plan clear unambiguous statements or is it shrouded in metaphorical language?

Are you making the picture language walk on all fours?

What happened to the efficacy of Jesus one time sacrifice on the cross?

Was it finished or not?

Do we need to keep on offering sacrifices?

My Catholic friends have answers to all the above questions for it is a vital part of Catholicism for many Catholics.

Jesus is sacrificed at every Mass over and over.

It should be noted that there are several versions of what has been termed the Magic Blood theory so all do not present it the same way.

 

[Fresh Air]

Noted. I read that the "doctrine" of the blood preserved eternally fresh upon the altar in heaven was not to  be found in any message anywhere until it came out to "get" McArthur.  I believe that people for a long time believed that Jesus presented His blood at the heavenly altar, but did J. Vernon McGee say that it was preserved fresh?

I don't think he used the word 'fresh' but he clearly believed in Jesus' physical blood literally being on the Mercy Seat in the Temple in Heaven.

 

[patriotic]

Best service I was ever in in my life was that one Patebald referenced earlier - Bro. Johnson quoting the entire book of Revelation. Mid 90's maybe?

I believe it was 96.  Really was a great service

I agree.  I had a 3.5 month old son.  My mom stayed back and watch my children that evening so I could attend the evening service with my husband. 

I've said it before, but in honor of my father, I'll state it again.  He - at age 65 - quoted most of the book right along with the guy. 

And Mom, when she heard all of us (a couple of my brothers and their wives) telling about how awesome it was that he could and did memorize and quote the entire book in a motherly sermon tone stated it wasn't something that any one of us couldn't do if we spent more time memorizing God's Word than doing other time-robbing things. 

Mom sermons are soooooooooooooooooooo convicting.  Seriously. 

 

[Binaca Chugger]

when I read of Pentecost or other famous revivals when the Holy Spirit moved in marvelous ways, I think of that service.

 

[bgwilkinson]

An explanation of the magic blood theory.

Fundamentalists and the "Incorruptible" Blood of Christ

http://www.cprf.co.uk/articles/blood.htm