Things I Think…

1. When I saw the headline “Former members of Gospel For Asia allege millions of dollars missing” the first thing I did was check the date of the story. How can this be “new” news?

Surely by now people are aware of all the “alleged” corruption that has surrounded this organization for years. Sadly, this story is brand spanking new, out of Canada instead of the U.S.

How can people still be donating to this mess? I’ll tell you how…

2. First, when I began writing about GFA in the early 2000’s, the stories were about “alleged” cult like conditions and mistreatment of workers. Then in 2015 more stories  began to come out and were chronicled on the GFA Diaspora website. One thing you can take to the bank…Christians could care less about the victims of narcissistic leadership and will always believe the corrupt until forced to do otherwise. The wolves know this…which is why people like K.P. Yohannon and Mike Rozell just wait for the storm to pass to resume business as usual…

3. The internet is their friend…if they have the money to scrub the internet of negative stories and play the Google algorithms to make it difficult to find those stories while making sure that all their “press releases” are at the top of the search rankings. They have the money…the first negative GFA story was on the fourth page of the search I just did…and I’m not sure the Diaspora page would come up in the first hundred…

4. GFA floods the internet with dozens of “press releases” a week about all their “works”.  Some sites that pose as outlets for Christian news are paid to post some of these…I wrote about that here. I hope every dime they take turns to ash in their mouths…

5. Those of us who do care about these issues get “scandal fatigue”. I’ve been raising questions about GFA since 2004 and in 2015 we were probably running a story a week at the height of the scandal. The wolves wear us down…

6. GFA found a celebrity spokesman…Francis Chan. Francis Chan will answer to God for every abused employee and every dollar given in faith to faithless men. In the meantime celebrity loving Christians will continue to be fleeced…

7. The biggest reason that GFA continues are the gutless hirelings who refuse to tell their congregations that this organization isn’t worthy of support., many of whom are the same gutless hirelings who can’t wait to support Potters Field again. Calvary Chapels, both the Calvary Chapel Association and the Calvary Global Network, should have splash pages on their websites that clearly state such as their churches provided a great deal of income to these organizations. You and I both know that won’t happen…which tells you how much they really care about their people…

8. I really wish the Bible didn’t use wolves as a metaphor for evil people…I like the real animal…I digress…

9. Mark MacArthur, son of John MacArthur and a board member of Grace to You, is in a heap of trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is going to get really ugly, but I’m sure the devil or Arminians made him do it…

10. I’m no fan of JonnyMac but until I see otherwise, this is his kids problem…the kid is 50 years old…I wouldn’t be surprised to see otherwise, however…