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- 12 January, 2007 -
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ChurchReport.com recently published their list of the 50 Most Influential Christians in America. The list is a very interesting collection of people, but I don’t think that I agree with their rankings.
What struck me about the whole list is that just about every person on the list is a media creator of some sort. Most of the people on the list are authors. Many of them have their on national television or radio program. The only ones without some form of media to their credit were the two politicians (President George Bush #11 and Senator Sam Brownback #41) and a CPA that I have never heard of (Frank Somerville #50).
There were four what I would call “pure media” people on the list who made the list solely for media ownership/creation rather than creating media out of some other ministry. They included Paul Crouch (#6), founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, his son, Paul Crouch Jr. (#18), the VP for Administration of Trinity Broadcasting Network, Marcus Lamb the founder of Daystar TV Network and Phil Vischer, the creator of Veggie Tales.
My wife said she thought the list skewed Pentecostal (but of course we wouldn’t identify ourselves as Pentecostal) and I was pleasantly surprised that the list skewed modern and younger with Leonard Sweet, Rob Bell and Erwin McManus all being listed before the first traditionally identified Southern Baptist Convention person, Al Mohler (#23).
