A very special invitation from Frank Damazio
Posted on January 6th, 2007 by catalyst into the Conferences category 
I have never had so many people send me the same item at the same time. Yesterday, City Bible emailed an invitation to their Thrive Conference. And though I am not on their list, the invite manged to make its way to my inbox within seconds.
I tried to post the whole invite, but could not fit it all on the page and make it readable. So I'm just going to link to their Conference Website. You can judge for yourself whether this conference is about Jesus or about money.
A long time member of City Bible emailed me her take:
Just had this in my inbox and had to share it. The part that really gets me is the preferred seating for the Thrive Conference. OK, so I understand the parking thing. There's limited space on the butte and this is their way to control it. But preferred seating??? Oh please.
I don't know if you've ever been to one of these things, but this is what happens: hours before the auditorium doors open, there are the faithful who "camp" right in front of the doors. More and more people come until the foyer is packed. Then the doors open and it's a melee down to the front to get the "good" seats. Maybe this is CBC's way of confining that a bit, I don't know. But isn't there something in James about who we give the best seats to? Hmmmm. Maybe it has something to do with $$$? Nah.
I'm shocked! Shocked. I tell you.
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January 6th, 2007 at 8:50 am
You mean they don’t reserve the first 10 rows for the homeless and/or poor who want to attend?
Personally, I believe that any conference/workshop/meeting/event that actually costs money to attend is not scriptural and is an abuse of power by the church.
Requiring people to pay money to hear about Jesus is certainly not something from the Bible.
Oh, you don’t have any money? OK.. no problem. But you are only allowed to go to our Sunday services. Sorry. And you have to sit in the back, because the good seats are reserved for the elders and special tithers.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Catylyst, et al
I really think you’ve missed the meaning of PFs invitation. I’m nearly certain he has in mind :
Deut 23:13“and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.”
I’m sure they are expressing a commitment to their flock and indirectly to this blog, that having been duly reproved by so many, and greatly fearing the Lord’s discipline, they intend to come together, dig deep into the ____ they’ve been preaching on the giving theme, and have a group burial for it all…tapes, publications, videos, etc…all buried.
Come on guys…give em a break, these guys are coming “clean” and this conference is the evidence of it…
You think?
January 6th, 2007 at 10:25 am
You know, I’m sensing there are some “parodilicious” (that’s short for parody delicious) words of knowledge, regarding the “digging” theme, that are floating around in parody land today…
Such as: This is Frank’s time to “wipe” the slate “clean”…
Or: He will cry out, in the midst of his opening conference sermon “Our camp stinks to high heaven, with all this money grubbing we’ve been promoting, let’s clean this thing up today, shall we????”
January 6th, 2007 at 10:36 am
I just want to congratulate Pam Hughes on winning the first Ipod.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I didn’t find the info on the site so I could reserve an up-front spit on me seat… Did I miss that in the blog… Perhaps all us CBC-ers could reserve them all and be front and center….
January 6th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Just an awesome message on our good God. check it out, its called “coming of the messiah” @ www.ibethel.org