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“Suffer The Children” DVD now launched

Trevor Glass has released his long-awaited DVD in which (I believe) ‘Signposts’ own ‘Absolute Truth’ may appear in the final edit.

“Suffer the Children” takes a look into the lives and lifestyles of some of the biggest names in tele-evangelism today. It explores the origins of the Word of Faith movement, also known as the Prosperity Gospel, and finds that its origins are not Christian at all …

… (it) takes a look into the sometimes hypocritical, frequently hilarious and often devastating world of television evangelism and asks the question ‘Is it all just a big money-making business?’ The film examines the multi-million dollar livestyles and teachings of some of the biggest names in tele-evangelism today including Benny Hinn, Kenneth & Gloria Copeland, Robert Tilton, Mike Murdock, Joyce Meyer and Hillsong Australia”.

You can watch the trailer or order your own copy here

Trevor is presently charging for the DVD as he personally invested in excess of $300K to create this movie with no other financial backers. Having seen the ‘pre-release’ edit, I think for a ‘first-time’ film producer he has done an impressive job.

And unlike many ‘prophetic’ Christian videos , this story is tempered with sensitivity and humour.

‘Four and a half stars’ from Lionfish.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pm by Lionfish and is filed under challenges for the church. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Responses to ““Suffer The Children” DVD now launched”

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    saint Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Have the vids actually been posted or is it just my antiquated computer set up that can’t cope? I really really really want to see the Jan Chicken story (I am inextricably drawn to televangelists with seriously bad hair.)

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    Lionfish Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    Saint - The vids are working fine on my broadband connection.

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    Eric Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    Yep, I just saw it. It stays blank for a while until it’s buffered a bit.

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    Lance Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    Just from a professional media presentation point of view, it’s disappointing that some obvious (to me) errors snuck through on the trailer titles (placement of apostrophes/lack of apostrophes/surplus to requirements apostrophes..)

    Don’t know whether it’s too late to fix the trailer before it gets more widely circulated…..but the errors are quite glaring.

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    Lionfish Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    Lance - I have aksed Trev to look at the grammar. Good call. My wife picked it up too.

    ANyway a Lutheran Pastor just reviewed the site and commented to me via email -

    “Hi R,
    I watched those various examples of tele-evangelists - I have seen some of that footage before, like the one of Hinn-Copeland exchanging “conversation” in tongues (about 12 years ago on a video). Two strong emotions have come over me in doing so - one is to laugh at their antics. The other is to feel a nauseating sadness deep in myh spirit - for so many wonderful, authentic christian believers watch Hinn, Copeland, J Meyers etc and seem to be incapable of hearing anything that tries to get them to evaluate it all on the basis of clear scripture. There is a blinding spirit….
    Anyhow, you know all of this.
    Thanks for keeping me in the loop again.”

    Why can ministers thatb sepn seven years going through an accredited seminary undersrand all this - yet megachurch pastors will never admit that there is a problem…?