NAR peddler and Cry Hollywood 2012 speaker Faytene Grasseschi is just like Michael Jordan?

[billiefan2000]

She [Faytene] is just like Michael Jordan?
Posted on January 7, 2012 by Rick Hiebert
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.

Robert Grasseschi, no doubt under the mentoring of his evangelist wife Faytene, is picking up how to speak in charismatic churches. But Robert, who says he used to be an adept basketball player, rhetorically bounced his three point shot off the rim recently.

The couple were guests roughly a couple of weeks ago at the North Hollywood, California church of evangelist Toure Roberts. Apparently, One Church International is quite hip and popular from what Roberts says. He has to turn away potential guest speakers. And also the church has a strong interest in the arts.

The couple are apparently friends of Roberts. So it would be quite natural in the run up to Faytene’s The Cry Hollywood initiative, that she would want to talk about what she hopes to do with “cool” perhaps younger, Christians who could lend a hand.

One of their videotaped sermons is posted online here. Faytene has some interesting things to say, but a couple things strike me as worth noting.


Special Guests Rob & Faytene Grasseschi at One Church on Vimeo

Robert is up first, introducing Faytene. I like Robert. He seems affable and friendly. But how he goes about it winds up being accidentally funny, with a possibly jarring subtext.


Robert shares for a moment about how he used to be a college basketball point guard, until an injury led him to pursue acting and modelling.



At 2:42, he adds this: Special Guests Rob & Faytene Grasseschi at One Church on Vimeo

“…And when you’re a point guard, and you have this amazing scorer [he moves his hand towards Faytene], you just drive right, like with [Michael] Jordan and Vince Carter, you just throw it by the rim, and it made you look real good, like the point guards that they played with didn’t even have to do anything. They just went like this, turned the ball up, you know, they touched the top of the backboard and dunked it, it was still all set. That’s how my wife is. She’s an amazing finisher. It’s just like where is she alright, there she is…”

Faytene a finisher? Well, Stephen Harper saying that Canadians will never be able to change the laws on abortion as long as he is prime minister is one “success” that comes to mind.



I appreciate Robert’s analogy–it’s appropriate for him–but comparing any Christian who is trying to ostensibly be humble in serving the Lord to Michael Jordan is just over the top.



Robert could use that analogy without using any names and have it work quite well . He is understandably proud of his wife.



But it strikes me as saying something like she is “another Billy Graham”.



Recall the Bible verses that talk about Christ’s analogy not seating yourself at a banquet. Don’t take the honoured seats in case you are asked to move, rather, wait to be brought to a better seat.

Praise is of real merit when it comes from others and not you. And the apparent fact that Robert sems not to be defaulting to humility–at least in this instance–is a little worrisome. But we perhaps attribute it to Robert being a beginner on the sawdust trail.

Faytene herself does go on to say something which may be quietly significant. I’ll discuss that in my next post.



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[billiefan2000]

for those who dont know about the Cry Hollywood 2012, I mentioned that and my concerns at


the Cry Hollywood 2012 (aka NAR movement event) and my special comment and concern on it


I btw do keep tabs on the Cry Hollywood event and have noticed a disturbing push by those who pray for hollywood and the media towards the NAR movement



I also share some concerns still about the Cry Hollywood event in March 2012


cause as I have said before I gotta feeling, it will be lot of NAR madness and making HPN aka Hollywood Prayer Network and other HPN groups (who are for the most part NAR neutral or anti-NAR movement) supporters look crazy.



I would hope I am wrong, but when it comes to NAR related things, a lot of over-dramatic acting and "visions from god" will happen

and I fear a lot of people who do pray for the media who arent NAR peddlers are going to have the credibility damaged, which is something the NAR movement has already done to people's reputation in other areas.





unlike the NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) or New Apostate Reformation as some folks call them cause of their movement is plagued


with False Prophets like Rick Joyner and Cindy Jacobs


and so called healers like Todd Bentley and other folks who claim we need to reclaim the media and "other mountains",




I am someone who has advocated for praying for folks in the media and havent gone into NAR teachings to do so. I am just saying that cause not everyone who prays for folks in Hollywood and the Media is pushing the NAR theology.



I am anti-NAR theology.




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1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


1 Timothy 4:1

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.


2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.