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My first time on CNN

Posted on Tuesday 9 October 2007 by Greg @ 6:15 am
Filed under: Rants

Wow! It all happened so quickly. CNN called yesterday and wanted an interview with spazboy. On what? Halo 3! It seems a lot of churches are using it as an outreach. Since my good buddy and fellow Dare 2 Share associate, Lane Palmer, had been interviewed for the New York Times about the Halo 3 hubbub (Lane had written a Soul Fuel article on Halo 3) they wanted to draw me into the debate.

By God’s grace I didn’t bite.

My 3 minutes of CNN interview time focused on how to use culture to bring the gospel up. Christians have a tendency to rail on all things culture instead of using it to bring a spiritual conversation up. As for the churches that use Halo 3 as an outreach (personally I’ve not played the game) each of us stands or falls before our own Master.

I was on the Erica Hill Show and interviewed by Mike Galanos on the “Get to the Point” segment. Hopefully we’ll get a connection to a digital version of the interview at some point.

Oh, and I got to “slip in” a short gospel presentation (oops! how did that happen?)

Praise the Lord with me for this awesome opportunity!

Signed, Greg Stier

7 Comments for 'My first time on CNN'

  1. On October 9, 2007 @ 9:58 am CBK said:
    • Greg, PTL for this opportunity for the light, love and gospel of Jesus Christ to penetrate the darkness! Thanks for your ongoing availability to Him and His purposes for, in and through D2S!

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  2. On October 9, 2007 @ 10:33 am Eddie said:
    • Why does the theme to “All in the Family” keep running through my mind as I read this?

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  3. On October 9, 2007 @ 11:19 am Big Daddy said:
    • You ROCK! I am excited to see the clip. Too often supposed “preachers” get their time in the spotlight and back down at the crux! (we wont mention the COWboys name or what kind of royal show he was on). Way to stay in the faith, as it were. I think the farther away from ministry a person is, the more critical they become of the methods that are used, because back in “the day” they did not use such “gimmicks”. But it is also amazing that a Christ follower can go an entire life time and never share their faith with anyone, but one Christ follower can be obedient to the commission and get to share the gospel with perhaps millions in a blip of CNN history. I don’t hear anyone cry fowl at uncensored TV in Christian homes, Christian parents letting their teens see “R” rated movies or go to school wearing “R” rated clothes….hhhmmmm. Way to go Greg!

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  4. On October 9, 2007 @ 4:02 pm Tim said:
    • You da man, Greg! I actually have a response to this issue on my blog, too, and stuck up for ya!

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  5. On October 9, 2007 @ 5:36 pm Ed said:
    • Have you a link where we might watch you in action?

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  6. On October 9, 2007 @ 9:25 pm Becky said:
    • Thats awesome Greg.I wanna see it!

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  7. On October 10, 2007 @ 12:30 pm Janna - Laurel UMC Montana said:
    • Way to stick the GOSPEL out there for all to hear! Oh Man!. Larry King is going to be knocking down your door soon! God works in some mysterious ways. Praying for very little “edits” on this one!

      This is such a blessing since this is a nationwide broadcast on a topic of great debate!
      I am so excited to see the clip…

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