On a clear day one can see both it and downtown Cleveland from the Ohio Turnpike bridge over the Cuyahoga valley.... In other words you can see it everywhere. -----
Background: Rex Humbard was one of the original televangelists, a contemporary of Oral Roberts. His ministry "once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program". Eventually he built a 5,000 seat "Cathedral of Tomorrow" (including hydraulic stage), and began work on a 750 foot broadcast tower that was to have a rotating restaurant at its summit (think: Seattle Space Needle). Unfortunately, like many of the "name it, claim it" crowd, he overextended himself financially, and eventually sold the cathedral and the tower to another evangelist in 1994.
Background: Rex Humbard was one of the original televangelists, a contemporary of Oral Roberts. His ministry "once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program". Eventually he built a 5,000 seat "Cathedral of Tomorrow" (including hydraulic stage), and began work on a 750 foot broadcast tower that was to have a rotating restaurant at its summit (think: Seattle Space Needle). Unfortunately, like many of the "name it, claim it" crowd, he overextended himself financially, and eventually sold the cathedral and the tower to another evangelist in 1994.
25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' 31Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. -Jesus
Reality is, Praise Jesus I see this unfinished tower daily as I am driving. Every time my eyes catch a glimpse of it my heart drops and I am brought back to reality. The reality that there is unfinished work here, in this city. The reality that these people need Jesus. I am reminded so quickly that my selfish little self knows the truth- the gospel of Jesus, and that truth is liberty. That truth is what this city needs. That truth is what I have been placed here to live and tell.
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