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Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Ed Young

Orginally published on Friday, October 06, 2006 at 6:49 AM
by Todd Rhoades

Rural Praxis has a good time with Ed Young, and in the mean time, shares some things that you might now have known about the Fellowship Church pastor...

I’m sure most of you have seen the hilarious Chuck Norris Facts Website. Inspired, I thought I’d come up with some Ed Young facts. Ed Young is superpastor extraordinaire of Fellowship Church, a mega-megachurch in Grapevine, TX (with 5 campuses around the Dallas area and...um...a video campus in Tampa.)

Anyway, Ed has that larger than life persona, so these are all verifiable facts. Trust me.

1. ed young’s chief export is creativity
2. ed young has figured out when Christ will return. you can purchase the date on his website for $19.95
3. ed young’s hair never gets messed up--never ever
4. ed young’s smile cures cancer
5. the glow from ed young’s face gives people a suntan (never a sunburn)
6. ed young gave joel osteen his best life now…
7. ed young’s communication skills transcend language barriers
8. ed young’s hair requires no gel...ever.
9. the quickest way to a man’s heart is through one of ed young’s conferences
10. ed young’s skin is tan...naturally
11. ed young once challenged mark driscoll to a duel of creativity. ed won by smiling a new megachurch into existence, ex nihilo.
12. ed young winks, and a sermon appears on his computer screen
13. ed young holds the patent on creativity.
14. when ed young talks, everyon listens--and cries.
15. the government just passed a law. every tanning booth must now be called an ‘ed young booth’.


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  • Posted by

    this was a dumb post.  i don’t get it.

    tjl - nj

  • Posted by

    TJL, it’s Friday.  Relax......

  • Posted by

    ok.  =)

  • Posted by

    Funny stuff, Todd!  I particularly liked No. 11 smile

  • Posted by

    Thank you! For a moment I thought the SBC post was all the humor we were getting this week, although the responses to the blogging post got kinda funny for a while…

  • Posted by

    Hysterical and what a relief especially compared to the thread yesterday on blogging - phew!Todd love that you know about the Chuck Norris facts - so funny!
    Oh and my pastor’s skin is tan too wink

  • Posted by

    Yeah… and Ed Young preached Chuck Norris how to round-kick.

  • The article forgot to mention that Ed Young gives all glory to God for all his spiritual gifts, talents, and Biblical insights.  wink

    John 15
    5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

    ...Bernie

  • Posted by

    It’s a good thing that Ed’s smile cures cancer, he’s going to need to smile a lot in a few years after those decades in the tanning booth catch up with him!

    Disclaimer: I have no idea if Ed actually uses a tanning booth or tan in a can or whatever.  I’m just saying, it’s pretty creepy in mid-February to look like a Brazillian.

  • Posted by

    It’s no secret that he loves the beach and deep sea fishing.  Plus Fellowship does have a Miami campus now (not Tampa) which I believe is known for it’s beaches; thus the tan. 

    I thought #6 was the best.  wink

  • Posted by

    I wonder if a doctrinal statement would ever “emerge” on the Ed Young or Ed Young’s Church websties. But that might scare off the seekers though.wink

    I thought #7 was the best. I wonder if he might go to Ruwanda with us and transcencd some of those communication barriers? Not!

  • Posted by

    He is nicer than God !!!!

  • Posted by

    Dalton,

    Now THAT is REALLY FUNNY! Thanks!

  • I just read a real interesting article about Ed Young and materialism:

    http://stewardshipmandate.blogspot.com/2006/01/tale-of-two-pastors.html

    I think it is eye-opening, for those who have eyes to see.

    ...Bernie

  • Posted by

    Bernie,

    Who cares.

    wink

  • Posted by Leonard

    Bernie,

    Why?  Is this under the spiritual conversion part the formation or the reformation on your web-site?  I don’t think you had that impact on any of the readers here yet with this post.  So Why?

  • Posted by

    Eye opening, Bernie?  What’s mentioned in that article is nothing that I haven’t heard before and I’m sure I’ll keep running across it over and over.  Honestly, unless you are a member of that church, I don’t want to hear it.  I’ve been a member for 5 years, even been on staff part-time and believe me, it’s nothing new to hear that stuff.  My view is - I don’t attend the church for Ed Young.  He is the pastor and I pray for him, as I would hope anyone would for their own pastor.  I attend to fellowship and worship with other believers and serve for God.  If you knew the number of unbelievers we have walk through those doors every weekend who encounter God, then you wouldn’t be so quick to assume we are all misled, Ed Young cult worshippers.  When I’ve doubted in the past and truly searched for answers from God, He has always led me back to Fellowship.

  • Posted by Todd Rhoades

    Wow… you guys amaze me… within 20 minutes (and before I could take Bernie’s comment and link off) Peter and Leonard took care of the problem for me!

    For anybody who didn’t click the link, let me summarize:

    Ed Young:  luxury cars, designer clothes, worldly success, beautiful people, church brand, fortune 500 company, rock star, hip, polished, marketing machine, ‘the ed young bookstore’, outdoor heated jacuzzi, good life, vacations, swimming pools, nannies, unaccountable, secret

    John Piper:  modest, excellent, missions, biblical doctrine, traditional, visits with common folk, modest, obedient, denies self; heck, he even walks to work.

    Bernie thanks the writer for her research.

    What research?

    Bernie, let me way it for you one more time… we don’t care.  Why not turn your time to something valueable like solving world hunger or finding a cure for aids?

    At this point, even John Piper would say, “Knock it off!”

    Todd

  • Posted by Todd Rhoades

    Thanks, Kristy…

    Great case in point, Bernie.  Who has the more credibility here, you?  or the person who attends Fellowship?

    See, now it’s not just a blog; now it’s personal.  You’re not attacking a rock; you’re attacking somebody’s pastor and somebody’s church.  And through the internet, you’ve been connected with someone that this type of thing affects.

    Let’s focus on those people, as Kristy says, who are encountering God each and every week at Fellowship and other churches whose leaders you dislike.

    Just my thoughts,

    Todd

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