Posted on 07/24/2008 9:51:30 PM PDT by Undivided Heart
The son of beloved evangelist and pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California was killed this morning in an automobile accident. Christopher Laurie was 33 years old and worked in his father’s ministry. Read more of the story below and see photos and a video.
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Condolences to the family. Always a tragedy when the young die.
May God rest his soul and comfort the family in their hour of need.
Oh no......I’m SO sorry to hear this!!!
Prayers for the Laurie family!!!
Oh no! That is so tragic. Greg is a wonderful man of God. Prayers have been sent for God to comfort his loved ones and to give them all strength in the difficult days ahead. My heart aches for them.
Rev. Laurie is well known in SoCal. Until a couple of years ago, he was better known than Rev. Rick Warren.
I put Rev. Laurie more in the old school like Rev. Shuler of Crystal Cathedral—not so much of the modern mega-church hype (even though they have large churches).
Too bad, so sad about losing a son. My brother died at 37 and it tore our family apart, the worst being our parents. It is said losing a child is the worst type of loss. I believe it.
God Bless and Godspeed to Greg Laurie and his whole family (and church family). It’s bad when you outlive your kids. I’ve always admired Pastor Laurie. He’s the real deal.
This is not the first Harvest Fellowship pastor's child to be killed by an auto accident. About a decade ago, a pastor's daughter was crossing Arlington Avenue at the Church after an evening service and was struck and killed by a car.
I have known of a number of pastors in Riverside who have lost a child to a car accident.
Pastors and their families are targeted by the Evil One in this life and need our prayers.
Again, these are so sad....our 23 son was swept out to sea by a rogue wave last month and not been found in Australia....jeremyearnshaw.com so sad, so sad...for this family and ours.
We rejoice because Christ took the sins of His sheep onto the cross with him.
May his family and friends find solace in Christ alone.
ohhh - my heart goes out to you, and also the Laurie family.
I’m so very sorry Ladyak. You will be in my prayers.
I am so so sorry to hear this.
The death of a child is the worst thing to go through as we lost a child in infancy.
I was just thinking about how fleeting life was yesterday when I was in court and the Judge was two hours late. She said she had been stuck in traffic following a terrible accident on the freeway and when she passed it there was a car with a yellow blanket over it and she knew someone had died. I was thinking about how that person was alive one second and dead the next and how someone had just lost a family member and how that could happen to anyone at anytime. There but for the Grace of God....
I found out last night that that someone was Christopher Laurie.
Greg is expected to preside over the Harvest Crusade in a little over 3 weeks. Greg always said how when these events approached he would be attacked by Satan. I can't think of anything worse than this. I don't think I would be in any shape 3 weeks after such an event to put on an evangelical crusade. We'll have to see what happens. We should all pray that this terrible accident will somehow bring Glory to God.
We can all take comfort in knowing that "all things work together for good" and that despite the attacks of the adversary, God is in control.
May the peace of God which passes all understanding be with Greg and his family during this time of trial.
One day each of us will be under that yellow blanket. We must take comfort that this, too, in some nearly incomprehensible way, was according to the will of God who dries every tear and will not send us a burden too heavy to bear.
In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me." -- Psalm 56:8,11"Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?...
And may He establish His kingdom may his Salvation blossom and his Messiah near in your lifetime and your days and in the lifetimes of all the House of Israel speedily and soon; and say, Amen.
May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored, elevated and lauded be the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that are spoken in the world; and say, Amen.
I’ve listened to Greg Laurie often. I appreciate his effort in bringing people to Christ with his great delivery of the message.
I am sorry for his loss, and pray for his continued strength in his good works toward God’s glory. He is in great hands!
I thought of you immediately when I saw the thread. Prayers for you and the Laurie family.
This is from a pastor and from the heart, P-M.
I have just finished my second funeral in as many days today, and then I had to go to my own aunt’s visitation after her passing 2 days ago. Funerals have been heavy lately with primarily the elderly, but there also are always those who go too young.
But, that’s not my point.
My point has to do with your commenting on a Harvest Crusade that Pastor Laurie has to conduct in just a few weeks. It may be that the Lord absolutely wants Greg Laurie to conduct that crusade. I am not pretending to be an authority on what the Lord tells the pastor what to do.
What I am saying is that there’s a real dearth of people who actually understand and appreciate what their pastors do. I suspect Greg Laurie will be at that crusade a few weeks from now preaching the word of God. He’ll still be deep in grief, but he’ll be smiling for the benefit of those in the congregation. He’ll be fatigued, depressed, and consumed with thoughts of his son. A man can’t just turn off his feelings.
Yet, he’ll be present. He’ll do his job.
I wonder, though, if someone on the crusade staff received a word from God that Greg Laurie should rest, whether they’d have the courage to speak it, and if the staff would have the grace to hear the message.
So many churches don’t sense what blessings they have in some of the pastors and spouses out there. Appreciation is not adulation. That is reserved for God. But, like a man who realizes how much he’s been blessed with the wife God has given him, churches would do well to appreciate sometimes how much they’ve been blessed with the pastor God has given them.
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