MTV Celebrity Death Match: Benny Hinn vs. Ravi Zacharias

Not sure if Mr. Hinn could actually rip Ravi's brains out, but Benny will certainly draw a larger crowd… unfortunately.   (BTW even if Benny did rip Ravi's brains out, he probably wouldn't use them…unfortunately)

I must be out of my mind… or at least not using it.  Why is it that I covet and become even jealous about "all" those who will be in attendance at the upcoming National Conference on Christian Apologetics and at the Contending for the Truth 2007 National Conference Orlando, Florida March 15-17, 2007?  Maybe its because I can't be at all of them at the same time. Yet, you can add those in attendance at both of these conferences and even those of similar nature and in an entire year they will pale in comparison to the amount of people in attendance at just one of these conferences .

This is a sad but true fact.  I have been to various conferences and it never fails; I can never find a seat at some charismatic conference but it shocked people and ended up being a borderline spectacle when I took a group of youth to the Biblical Discernment Conference in St. Louis several years ago.  

Conferences that focus on nourishing and nurturing the mind are so poorly attended and publicized by our churches that they are barely even scheduled, much less conveniently located across the nation.   I currently reside in the Seattle area, and if I don't vomit the next time Casey Treat has another huge gathering, I will at least do a one man boycott. Yet, I took about a dozen teenagers to a Worldview Conference where there were just over a couple hundred people; and that's only because Doug Geivett , Gary Habermas , Greg Koukl and Jason Carson (son of a D.A. Carson not cofounder of the former Supertones) were in attendance. <– I'm sure Jason loves that I have to give that parenthetical statement.

Nevertheless, those at this Worldview conference were thrilled with how many had come out to attend.  I guess I should just give up and think in similar fashion: "Wow, what a great attendance, a whole 200 people;" which I'm sure T.D. Jakes will have more show up for his "Golf with the Bishop " fundraiser this September. 

I recently suggested to our congregation that instead of wearing Shawn Alexander jerseys we should wear Ravi Zacharias ones instead -so far, someone made me a Ravi Zacharias pillow for my office. And even though its a nice start to Ravi 's celebrity status, unfortunately, Benny still has him beat.

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