(Reported By Jessilyn Justice) Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Holy Land Experience will host an estate sale to relieve some financial burden after the theme park plunged into financial woes. The announcement comes just months after the death of the property’s CEO Jan Crouch. “We have had to do some belt-tightening as well, which gives rise to the auctions and the closing of unprofitable gift stores,” John Casoria, an attorney for the network, told the Orlando Sentinel.
The Holy Land Experience will host an estate sale beginning June 21 to auction off items including a throne, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and statues of nativity figurines like camels and wise men. The estate sale is not the Experience’s first brush with financial struggles, though. Founder Marv Rosenthal sold the property to the Crouches in 2007 when it was estimated to be more than $2 million in debt. CONTINUE
A preacher in the 1900 said “Too largely I suspect our churches have become weak, uncertain as to their purpose, lifeless, characterized by a deadly respectability and lacking a sense of mission. The average congregation is primarily concerned with raising enough money to pay the pastor and to keep the property in good repair. There is little deep-seated conviction any longer that ‘we have a story to tell to the nations.’ The gospel of salvation and evangelism as respects the whole world has been diluted into a satisfactory and responsible ethic and the church is a society of good people who want the blessing of religion to attend them during their moments of exaltation or grief, but are quite content to absent themselves from the church and its divine mission so long as they can clothe themselves in the aura of respectability which attaches to church membership. Is this too caustic an indictment of the church?” This “prophetic” sermons sounds much like today’s megachurches..
Great essay philoma