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There will never be another Rev. Jerry Falwell.
My sympathy goes out his family and congregation.
Written by GussIf the Rev. Jerry Falwell personified the Christian right in the past, then the Rev. Frank S. Page may represent its future.From his Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., where his funeral will be held today, Falwell gave evangelicals a strong political voice. But it was often the voice of a sure and angry prophet, as when he blamed the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in part on “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians,” or described warnings about global warming as “Satan’s attempt” to turn the church’s attention from evangelism to environmentalism.Page, 54, was chosen last year as president of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, Falwell’s denomination and the country’s largest evangelical one, in an election that he saw as a mandate for change.
“I would not use the word ‘moderate,’ because in our milieu that often means liberal. But it’s a shift toward a more centrist, kinder, less harsh style of leadership,” Page said. “In the past, Baptists were very well known for what we’re against. . . . Instead of the caricature of an angry, narrow-minded, Bible-beating preacher, we wanted someone who could speak to normal people.”
~J~ Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:33 amVisit ~J~
Hi, Guss, guess you can’t sleep either.
I never paid any attention to Jerry Falwell as far as my politics went. I never joined any religious political group. I go to church to hear the Word of God preached, and it’s forbidden to tell someone how to vote from the pulpit or the church will lose its tax-exempt status.
I used to watch his services all the time because he was a good preacher. And, yes, he was a man and as a man he was fallible.
He had good, solid theology, was concerned enough about abortion that he opened a home for mothers to have those children and leave them in the care of guardians.
He saw a problem with homelessness with alcoholic men and he opened a home for homeless alcoholic men.
Of course the girls and the men heard the Word of God while they were there but he forced no one.
When one of his staff told him he was gay and was quitting for that reason they remained good friends.
After the lawsuit with Larry Flynt, the skin magazine guy, they became good friends, with Flynt saying Falwell always tried to convert him but it didn’t offend him.
He may not have said it in a PC way about 9/11. Perhaps the best way to have said it was that our country is no longer as blessed by God as it once was because we have taken ourselves so far from Him.
If you had seen him preach and had seen the glow on his face—that of a man fully at peace with God and therefore himself you would have known he was a good man. A man, nevertheless, but a good man who is now reaping his rewards.
Guss Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 amVisit Guss
I had a lot of respect for the man. He truly believed what he preached.
There was nothing phony about him and weather or not I agreed with him, didn’t matter. He was a true believer.I did enjoy watching him preach.
Guss Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 amVisit Guss
I just got up. I had a good nights sleep.