[BibChr]

My favorite Door article ever was titled (I've a terrible memory for numbers) "How to Spend Twenty Million Dollars."

On the left column, it had a bunch of things — start a missionary seminary, fund __ missionaries, build a hospital, and on and on and on. Each had an amount. Grand total: twenty million dollars.

The right column had only one entry: Build a big glass church. Grand total: twenty million dollars.

It was a very on-target sendup of Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral. (I call it, less charitably, "The Glass Abomination.")

Dan

[AVNative]

Dan, you probably are familiar with the saying "Those who live in glass houses. . ." (wry Scottish grin)

The Door, started over 30 years ago by Youth Specialties and now published by the Trinity Foundation (Ole Anthony's ragtag group of do-gooders and dumpster divers - said with all love and accuracy) has through the years skewered more Sacred Cows than perhaps anyone else in the country. Touche' on remembering that article!

To amplify a bit more on the "left column" of that Door article: the October 2003 print edition of Christianity Today has an article entitled "Influential Things Come In Small Packages" on pages 52 and 53 - speaking of the legacies of Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, who died recently. Rick Warren's mini-essay discusses the little tools Bright left behind that continue to do a big job for the Kingdom of God. I daresay that these were "left column" brainstorms of Bill Bright. . . Can you say The Four Spritual Laws booklet or the Jesus Film documentary? To quote that late Christ Follower Mr. Fred Rogers, "I knew you could!"