THE TRUTH ABOUT PASTOR MELISSA SCOTT

If you're new to Pastor Melissa Scott's program, then you're sure to have lots of questions. I have an insider's perspective that most people posting to the blogs do not. Having said that, the best way to get your questions answered is to visit her website at: http://www.pastormelissascott.com and make an effort to listen to the teaching.

If you are searching the web for more information, hopefully you haven't had the misfortune of stumbling across the more critical voices in the "blogosphere." If you're not bothered by the critics, then don't bother with the rest of this page. If, however, you've become disheartened by them, perhaps my experience can be of help.

I have worked for Dr. Gene Scott and Pastor Melissa Scott in various capacities over the past 20 years. I know Pastor Melissa Scott personally, and being the cynical person I am, even I can tell you she is the REAL DEAL. Of course, you have no reason to take my word for it, but remember, most of these people slinging abuse on the blogs don't know her at all. Here is how I came to meet Dr. Scott and Pastor Melissa Scott:

I didn't like church as a teenager. I was never a "God-Hater", but the traditional church world was such a turn-off for me, with all it's hypocrisy and legalism, I gave up on "organized religion" altogether. That all changed the first time I heard Dr. Gene Scott on the radio. It was amazing! I couldn't believe that such a "man's man," could also be a Christian. Even though he possessed an Einstein-like IQ, he was able to break-down complex subjects and communicate them so that the average person could understand. I found Dr. Scott during the time when Christian leadership was represented in the news media by the Big Three: the effeminate Jim Baker, the smug Jerry Falwell; and the hypocritical Jimmy Swaggart. Dr. Scott seemed too good to be true. "So, what was the catch?" I asked. After all, my secular education indoctrinated me into believing that a person could not be both smart and a Christian--yet here stood the paradox personified in Dr. Gene Scott.

Unfortunately, my joy was short-lived. After expressing my excitement to family and friends, they began to recite various media reports that cast suspicion on Dr. Scott. A cynical news media, most of whom were weaned on Rationalism and Evolutionary theory in University, could never see the Bible as anything more than a compilation of fairy stories. Hence, their instant reaction to someone as smart as Dr. Scott was that he had to be a con-man. Surely no one of his intelligence could actually believe in things like the Resurrection. I continued to listen to Dr. Scott enduring constant harping from the critics who assured me that his ministry was only about money. The critics had their intended effect of casting doubt, but the one thing they could never do was turn me off of his teaching.

After years of living in a nearly apologetic state, it dawned on me that all the critics could do was attack him personally: his lifestyle, his cigars, his horses, etc. No one could contend with his message. From that day forward, I decided to focus on the one thing no one could consistently refute--his teaching. It wasn't until many years later whilst working for the man, that I learned that my initial gut reaction had been correct. I got to see with my own eyes what a profoundly dedicated Pastor he was and how devoted he was to the study and the teaching of God's word.

Here we are some twenty years later and things seem to have come full circle. We now live in the age of the Mega-Church, lead by anti-authoritarian, non-confrontational, nice-guys, preaching on Christian networks in a modern day "Tower of Babble" where an amalgamation of confusing voices bleat out contradictory messages by the hour.

So, on the stage strolls Pastor Melissa Scott, someone who thought she was the last person on earth who would ever be a Pastor. She certainly didn't seek out the job. Dr. Scott's death sent everyone in the church into a temporary state of confusion, but she emerged as the calm, reassuring leader with the faith, fortitude, and guts to handle the assignment given her.

Pastor Melissa Scott's broadcast features no advertising sponsors, no circus-like sideshows, no counseling services, no pictures of starving children to solicit sympathy donations, no "Holy Rocks" from Jerusalem nor "Jesus Junk" for sale--just straight-forward, gut-level Bible teaching. And even though she spent years by Dr. Scott's side, she's no marionette that simply parrots his past messages.

Pastor Melissa Scott is a very intelligent person in her own right, with the ability to read, write, and speak twenty different languages. She conducts her own research and with her linguistic ability, can interpret the ancient languages of the original Biblical texts (a far cry from some preachers I've had to endure who can barely make sense of the American Standard version).

I learned a lot working by her side and I know some of the challenges she's had to face in rescuing this ministry. I love Dr. Scott, but the infrastructure would have crumbled if she hadn't have come along when she did. She is modernizing the ministry for the digital age, and laying a foundation that will become a launching pad for God's Word to encompass the entire globe.

So if you've had the misfortune of finding critics in the blogosphere, don't forget that in our great country, even unhinged cretins are allowed their right to freedom of speech. Having to endure their tedious insults is part of the price we pay for that freedom.

Pastor Melissa Scott is a loving and forgiving person. She loves God and she will overcome evil with good. I however, am not so enlightened. I still enjoy employing a bit of "old-school Dr. Scott" methodology when it comes to antagonizing the enemies of the church. So, if you don't want to read where I criticize the critics, then it's probably best for you to leave my site now and focus on Pastor Melissa Scott's site and all the good things God has to say. Don't forget to check out the photo gallery with plenty of pics of Pastor Melissa Scott and Dr. Gene Scott before you go.

A LOOK AT THE CRITICS

If you're sick of the cyclonic imbeciles who populate the blogosphere, then why not have a peek at some of the tactics they employ. After all, the wise Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies.

RABID SECULARISTS:
These people automatically assume they're smarter than any religious person just because they're secular. Check out Bill Maher's movie Religulous if you need a demonstration of the snide, arrogant attitude embodied by this sector of society. In a veiled "search for truth," Maher holds up the extremist, the buffoon and the imbecile as examples of all "religious" people. After successfully setting up his Straw Man, Maher then heroically knocks him down with a litany of philosophical questions that sends his secular fan-club rollicking in their movie seats with approval and everyone gets to go home with the smug, self-satisfaction that they're so much smarter than those superstitious religious types.

Actually, most of us asked the same questions Maher posed years ago and had them answered after graduating from Sunday School. Apparently Maher never did. He's still fighting a battle with the ill-taught simpletons that so offended him in his youth I suppose. Anyways, the philosophical roots that guide the secularist's thinking reaches back to the so-called Enlightenment and before. Kind of ironic that a person who recites ideas that are hundreds of years old thinks of himself as "Progressive."

Since these people have no God in their lives, they tend to gravitate to substitutes. They might deify the self, anointing themselves the subjective judge of all things in some sort of Narcissistic fantasy. They might deify a pet, their family or some humanitarian cause they use as a substitute to find meaning in their lives. Since they have no God, they can have no objective certainty of anything, particularly when it comes to morals or ethics. Post-Modern philosophers are now even questioning whether or not murder is unethical. From the point of view of the murderer, he might feel that killing is right and who are we to say he (the murderer) is wrong? Sounds unbelievable, but a terrifying example of how the mind can slip into moral relativism.

No doubt some very intelligent secularists inhabit the planet, but many tend to fall victim to bandwagons and some pretty "wacked-out" conspiracy theories. After all, if you don't believe in anything, you tend to fall for everything. No certainty of an afterlife leads them to harbor exaggerated fears of war and death, and they'll haughtily criticize people as being foolish for monetarily supporting a Pastor, yet they'll spend exorbitant sums on their own messiahs--usually on the people they feel can deliver them from war and death. People pay $25,000 a pop just to be in Al Gore's presence. Apparently he is their deliverer dujour from their fear of death by Global Warming.

So when you meet a rabid secularist who criticizes Pastor Melissa Scott, they usually haven't even listened to her. They've already neatly categorized all religious people as intellectually inferior, so why bother. To justify their closed-minded position, they'll pose a philosophical question that they think topples God from his throne, or they'll cite some religious leader who abused his position by stealing money, molested a child...whatever. The secularist will then argue that ALL religious leaders are "that way." This tactic is not far removed from that of the racist who, when watching the nightly news report on a black man robbing a 7-11, proclaims, "See! All black people are robbers!"

I don't hear any secularists crying out that we should abandon the the discipline of Psychology when a Psychiatrist molests his patient. Yet, anyone who misrepresents Christianity is held up as the latest shining example as to why we need to get the government to police the church or better yet, just abandon this religion thing altogether and unify under some one-world vision of a godless utopia where education and human ethics can guide us. It's funny but so many of these so-called "tolerant" and "compassionate" people I meet turn rabid when they find out I'm a Christian. Their anti-God fervor runs so hot, I feel like they'd enjoy throwing me into a gulag or Marxist re-education camp until I could be indoctrinated into the enlightened beings they are. When appearing on the Mike Huckabee show, Maher himself exclaimed that Christians have a "mental disorder." Implying of course that we're in need of treatment.

The long and short of it is, when you hear secularists criticizing our Pastor, it's not so much a personal attack as it is a built-in prejudice and intolerance towards Christians in general.

CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS:
These people are not bright. I hate to help divide the church world more than it already is by criticizing other factions, but these people aren't smart enough to grasp something as complex as the Bible, so they cherry-pick a few simple rules they can understand, anoint themselves God, and go about condemning everyone else to hell. Jesus loves them best because they don't drink, don't smoke and don't cuss...at least when no one's looking. The self they present to the outside world is that of perfection as they've defined it. I've heard their criticisms of our Pastor, and they condemn what the rest of us find so endearing about her--the fact that she's not perfect and never professes to be. Yet certain Fundamentalists rail on her like the white-sepulcher Pharisees of Jesus' day. They're so blinded and wrapped up in their legalistic traditions, they never open their minds up long enough to hear what Pastor Melissa Scott has to say.

Dr. SCOTT GROUPIES:
One thing Dr. Scott reiterated was that he preached Christ--not himself. He often joked about Balaam's Jack-Ass being a better spokesperson for God than most Christian preachers. His point was, it doesn't matter who the preacher is, so long as the message being preached was right. Throughout the historical record, God has picked some interesting characters to communicate his Word -- messengers that most religious people today would never have approved of. Yet when Dr. Scott died, a small, but vocal faction of people left the church claiming their commitment was to him and no one else. Interesting, because I thought their commitment was supposed to be to God and whatever spokesperson HE chose.

You'll find these disgruntled ex-employees and ex-members to be among Pastor Melissa Scott's harshest critics. They congregate in chat rooms and blogs, hurling vile abuse and accusations under the guise of some religious calling. They are pretty easy to spot. Whenever there is a positive post in a blog, they respond with, "I used to like Pastor Melissa Scott too, but then I found this informative news group that told me all about her." The so-called News Group is actually their own blog where they socialize, commiserate, and share conspiracy theories. (The hubris of these people referring to themselves as a News Group would be laughable were it not so sick). Once they have tried to bond with the positive poster, (e.g. I used to be just like you, thank God I was enlightened by this "news group") they launch into their conspiracy theories. I've read where they've accused Pastor of having a "race change" operation and was responsible for executing a gang-banger at Forest Lawn cemetary. I could go on and on but there's no need to wade into the details nor the depth of their insanity here.

Suffice it to say, not only is their hatred of her inhuman, so is their obsessiveness. They relentlessly search out positive blogs about Pastor so they can taint them. They watch her program constantly--not to study God's word--but so they can try to catch her in a mistake. Before they got banned from YouTube, I even saw them snatch a video clip (where she speaks flawlessly) edit and tweak the clip to try to make her look a Satan worshipper! All public figures have their "haters" but these people are relentless.

In Biblical history, there is one figure constantly hurling accusations at the brethren, constantly bringing up past sins and imperfections to rub their faces in it--and it isn't Jesus. In Biblical history, there was one son of Noah that God cursed for exposing his father's shame. Noah was indeed drunk. Shem and Japheth covered him, backing into the room so as not to look on his nakedness. Ham gossipped and tried to expose his father and it was a line of Ham that was cursed.

I thought Christians were supposed to celebrate changed lives, not beat people to death for past mistakes. I thought Christians were supposed to get excited when a worldly person stopped, turned direction and refocused their lives to a higher spiritual purpose. A Satanic spirit hurls accusations, as if Christ's shed blood isn't good enough to cover past transgressions. A Hamidic spirit gossips and exposes. How these ex-member miscreants can think that accusing and gossipping (not to mention lying and exaggerating) about a person's past is somehow God ordained is truly beyond me.

Dr. Scott passed away about 4 years ago, and these people are still rabid in their attacks. They cannot seem to get over the fact that Dr. Scott left his wife in charge. Pastor Melissa Scott, with a tiny staff, took on the awesome responsibility of running a worldwide ministry, keeping Dr. Scott's voice on the air, and even began teaching herself. With all that, this obsessive faction of people still sit in judgment of her. It's ironic that the Dr. Scott Groupies criticize her when she is the one keeping the ministry alive. And it will be Pastor Melissa Scott that finally realizes the dream of taking Dr. Scott's voice to the world.

Thank you for indulging me as I criticize the critics. My advice to you new people is to focus on the teaching. God's Word is all that matters. Deep calleth unto deep, and if God's word truly touches you, you won't be able to run away from it. Be thankful that God has called you and snatched you out of the current of life down here that has so many people spinning away their precious years in frivolity. Your life dedicated to a higher purpose can truly make a difference in the Kingdom. God has given us a great teaching Pastor. I for one am grateful.

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