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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/05/2009 : 07:54:22
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Ted Haggard, whom we remember as the former leading light of the multi-thousand member New Life Church, once fearless leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, reliable supporter of gay prostitutes, and quality methamphetamine aficionado is planning to take up the cause again. If this article is correct he is beginning as he originally began, with a small prayer meeting in his house. Where it will go from there remains to be seen.
Haggard starting new church at his Springs home
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November 04, 2009 5:00 PM
MARK BARNA
THE GAZETTE
Ted Haggard, who started New Life Church in his Colorado Springs basement and built it into a megachurch with thousands of worshippers, said Wednesday that he is starting a church at his home.
“We wanted to do something in our house to connect with friends,” said Haggard, whose ties to New Life ended in scandal three years ago with the revelation that he’d been involved with a male prostitute in Denver.
Haggard will hold his first gathering, open to the public, at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at his house at 1865 Old Ranch Road. He referred to it as a “prayer meeting” but said it would also be correct to call it a church.
Although Haggard recently indicated he had no plans to start a church, he said he changed his mind two weeks ago after talking to a friend in Florida who was involved in prayer meetings.
Haggard anticipates that 10 to 20 people will show up for the evening of music and prayer and said he has no expectations of building his new enterprise into something on the scale of New Life.
“For this prayer meeting, I have no goals,” Haggard said. “I have no secret hope that more people will come. I am not driven as I was. Before I focused on the Great Commission. Now I focus on helping other people.”
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Uh-huh...... <snip>
He resigned from New Life on Nov. 5, 2006, and was given a 13-month severance package with conditions that included not starting a church near Colorado Springs and meeting with overseers in a restoration program.
Haggard has tried to support himself and his family as an insurance salesman, but for the past year, he has been giving talks on weekends with his wife, Gayle, at evangelical churches across the nation. The church talks have become the Haggards’ primary income.
Several people who have worked with Haggard said it’s premature for him to be leading a church. C. Peter Wagner, who co-founded New Life’s World Prayer Center with Haggard, said the former pastor should first seek approval from the overseers before leading people in prayer and worship. Haggard quit the five-year restoration program in February 2008.
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Uh-huh....... More uh-huhage follows.
I do not trust Haggard -- once a lying hypocrite, always a lying hypocrite. He now has a pretty good, cash base and can spread his wings a bit, not unlike like a hungry vulture. It will be interesting to see where he flies.
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Edited by - filthy on 11/05/2009 07:55:42
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 11/05/2009 : 08:05:03 [Permalink]
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Originally quoted by filthy
“We wanted to do something in our house to connect with friends,” said Haggard... |
Apparently a weekly game of Bridge was too tough. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2009 : 10:04:57 [Permalink]
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Bridge, because it involves the ability to do basic addition and subtraction (Mathematics), is an "elitist" activity. No crazy fundie can be seen participating in those elitist activities!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2009 : 14:52:15 [Permalink]
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| I don't feel much for Haggard, I save my contempt for the brain-dead thousands who, while fully aware of his past, will flock to him by the thousands. Mark my words, it will happen. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2009 : 10:36:36 [Permalink]
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| I think he misses the glory of being tax-exempt. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
435 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2009 : 20:55:43 [Permalink]
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Let's all sing along now:
Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmHC75FDqQ&feature=fvst |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/10/2009 : 03:50:18 [Permalink]
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| Anything's a good excuse to reintroduce Roy Zimmerman! |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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He's Baaack!..... well, maybe.
