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Back when I was younger, I made a habit of watching The 700 Club partly for laughs. I got a particular hoot from the "word of knowledge" sessions, in which Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen and the others would pray for miracles to happen--and they'd get words of knowledge about said miracles. I couldn't help but think it was all scripted somehow--as if they'd somehow remembered the details of all the prayer requests that flowed in from across the country.
Well, while clicking around on YouTube, I happened to find one of these on CBN's channel. This time, it was being led by Gordon Robertson (Pat's son), Terry Meeuwsen and John and Carol Arnott of Toronto Boondoggle--er, Blessing--fame.
Now that I've become a charismatic Christian myself, conventional wisdom would suggest my perspective has changed on this. Not by a longshot--and not just because I'm somewhat skeptical of these "words of knowledge," having been suckered by one of these so-called "words" myself. Something about this screams "scripted, scripted, scripted"--at least to my ears. Besides the remarkable specificity of these "words," doesn't it seem odd that first Robertson fils gets one, then Meeuwsen, then the Arnotts? Seems to me that if these were real, they'd be popping in back and forth with these.
Well, while clicking around on YouTube, I happened to find one of these on CBN's channel. This time, it was being led by Gordon Robertson (Pat's son), Terry Meeuwsen and John and Carol Arnott of Toronto Boondoggle--er, Blessing--fame.
Click to viewNow that I've become a charismatic Christian myself, conventional wisdom would suggest my perspective has changed on this. Not by a longshot--and not just because I'm somewhat skeptical of these "words of knowledge," having been suckered by one of these so-called "words" myself. Something about this screams "scripted, scripted, scripted"--at least to my ears. Besides the remarkable specificity of these "words," doesn't it seem odd that first Robertson fils gets one, then Meeuwsen, then the Arnotts? Seems to me that if these were real, they'd be popping in back and forth with these.