The Lost Boy – A Visit With Pastor Greg Laurie
Today Stu welcomes Greg Laurie.
Greg is the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California. It’s a church of some 12,000 people, and one of the largest churches in America. Laurie is also the evangelist for the Harvest Crusades, which have had more than 3.8 million people in attendance across the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, he is the featured speaker on the nationally syndicated radio program, A New Beginning, with daily listeners coast-to-coast and overseas. Laurie serves on the board of directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse. He holds two honorary doctorates from Biola University and Azusa Pacific University.
Books authored by Laurie include his autobiography, Lost Boy (Regal) the Gold Medallion Award Winner,The Upside-Down Church (Tyndale, 1999); and Losers and Winners, Saints and Sinners (Warner Faith, 2005); as well as study notes for two Bibles in the New Living Translation: the New Believer’s Bible and The Seeker’s Bible. For more information, visit www.harvest.org
8 Comments on “The Lost Boy – A Visit With Pastor Greg Laurie”
I was listening at about 5:20 pm EST on 2/18/09 when a lady from NC called in and said how disappointed she was in not being able to meet the pastor of the church she had been attending in Kernersville. It seems that the church is part of the Harvest Christian Fellowship that Greg is affiliated with. According to the caller the church had started with about 50 members and now the membership is around 1,000. Greg told her as long as she was “being fed” she shouldn’t be as concerned to meet the pastor of the church (or words to that effect). I thought how sad for a person to attend a church and not be able to meet the minister. I realize I’m not as “religious” as most church people, but if a church is so large you can’t meet the minister, its “TOO BIG”. Hope she doesn’t have a crisis in her life and doesn’t have someone to counsel her. After all, I’m sure the minister of her church is too busy meditating, praying, writing, being on the radio, and going out to lunch at Golden Corral with Little Stu and his cronies to care about taking a few minutes to meet with someone who takes time to attend services on a regular basis. May we little people expect too much from our ministers.
Hello Robert – We need to warn you that we do not tolerate personal attacks of any sort within this forum. Typically, we’ll issue 2 warnings and on the 3rd warning we will ban a user from the site. Our rules are 1) No profanity, obscenity or links to website containing such. 2) No personal attacks towards other listeners, readers, users, including hosts and guest of Truth Talk Live. 3) Debate intelligently and respectfully without insulting another person’s beliefs.
While your point was understood, your crack about our host and his cronies crossed the line and this will be warning #1.
Thank you,
Moderator (not Stu)
I thought the crack at Little Stu was the fact that he eats at Golden Corral!
Is the Golden Corral restaurant really that bad?
We felt it was unecessary, Scott.
Moderator
No, just kidding! I actually prefer to say Lil Stu and his cronies. Actually that might make a good t-shirt for TTL. “Lil Stu’s cronies” I might even buy one! I’m just kidding here. I mean no disrespect for Little Stu and his friends!
I agree with you Moderator. A few of his posts on this site have “sounded” angry.
I heard a reairing of the program where Pastor Greg was talking about the death of his son. This broadcast was so timely for me as my mother passed away on Monday, Feb. 16th and she was a Great Woman of God by colabourer in the Gospel and I was having a very diffcult time dealing with her death experiencing moments of unspeakable grief. Something else so amazing to me is that my radio broadcast which is about death and a tribute to my mom is about to air on KGMS 940 AM in Tucson, AZ right after the reairing of Truth Talk Live with Pastor Greg Laurie as the guest. Sometimes we are so overtaken with grief we forget about others that are grieving also. My program is coming on as I write this. As far as the lady that was unable to meet her Pastor…I am so sorry…My pastor always told me that a shephard should always touch his sheep and sometimes you have to touch them with more than the Word…there is nothing like human contact…I am sure though that if she needs counseling of some kind the church is large enough to have a staff to assist her and show love…in the midst of thousands God sees the “one” that may need Him more than anyone else. Peace and Blessings to all!…Evangelist Deneene…Always believing for the best!