As the Dove turns…
Michael Newnham at PhoenixPreacher.com has published a rare and rather shocking behind-the-scenes look at the Chuck Smith Death Watch and the inner-workings of the battle for the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa Chuck Smith kingdom.
In the report, Newnham’s sources allege that Paul Smith, brother of Chuck Smith, approached the nearly-dead CC Patriarch with a proposal…a proposal that would buy out Brian and Cheryl Brodersen for a cool mmmeeeeeelllllllyunnn dollars (read in best Dr. Evil voice, or one million dollars) and would bequeath the Throne to none other than Skip Heitzig, the pretty surfer boy rock star of the Calvary Chapel Movement. The rationale was that Brodersen isn’t a CC Traditionalist and doesn’t have the star power of a Mr. and Mrs. Heitzig and that the CC Brand and legacy was in desperate need of this change.
Chuck Smith rejected the proposal, according to the article and sources.
Brodersen stays (for now) and the Coup of Paul Smith and the Traditionalists who reportedly include heavyweights like Heitzig and lightweights like George Bryson, were thwarted again in their attempts to gain Power of the important Oz (or Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa).
You can read the full article at PhoenixPreacher.com here: http://michaelnewnham.com/?p=13829
Some commentary:
According to the article, Chuck Smith seems to be on death’s door…attached to a “30 foot oxygen tube” to keep him alive. Very sad way to spend one’s Last Days and End Times.
I personally don’t wish this terrible end on anyone, though Chuck Smith called down God’s judgment on me from the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa pulpit and after doing so I publicly acknowledged and expressed the “feeling” that I got that he had just cursed himself and something bad would befall him (knowing I was in the right in the BG matters)…and then he was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer not long after…and has had a nasty relapse after I also publicly stated that he would probably have such if he didn’t repent and make things right.
Now I personally don’t believe in Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel’s Doctrine of Divine Retribution and “Touch Not God’s Anointed”…but I find it rather at odds with CC’s history and practice and proclamations of such…and their ignoring the timing and facts surrounding Chuck Smith’s sudden and terrible cancer and relapse. Seems quite a pick-and-choose “Touch Not God’s Anointed” metric that Chuck and CC use. If it had been me that had such a terrible turn and prolonged miserable death…they would have certainly viewed and expressed my terrible end on the heels of Chuck’s curse as proof that God had zapped me and proclaimed a judgment for touching one of God’s anointed.
Seems Calvary Chapel and Chuck Smith can easily dismiss anything as “coincidence” when they are on the other end of the equation…and my “prophetic” track record is 2 for 2, while Chuck Smith’s is 0-2 (1981 prediction of the Rapture and that I would be nuked by God)…just sayin’.
