It has been pointed out to PFO by Dr. Michael Brown, one of the staff at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Fla., that the article “The Murky River of Brownsville,” (1997) contained an The Quarterly Journal, April-June innuendo regarding the morality of Evangelist Steven Hill. At least, that is what they thought.
The PFO article described a Brownsville service where Hill lined up convulsing bodies across the stage for all to see as an “orgy of voyeurism.” However, PFO never intended to convey a charge of immorality in any way. The phrase was in no way to be construed as questioning Mr. Hill’s morality, nor did the writers intend the words to convey any promiscuous conduct. That idea was the furthest thing from the intent of the authors.
Checking on the strict definition of each of
the words, we have concluded that the correction is warranted.
What was intended was to say that Hill made a spectacle of these
people and in laying them out across the stage for all to see and
was involved in some kind of spiritual “exhibitionism”
(first definition: “tendency to call attention to one’s
self or show off,” see New Word Dictionary of the
American Language). The authors still contend that the people
were exploited and made a spectacle and should not have been.
There was no moral/immoral connotations ever intended. PFO stands
corrected if that was conveyed, but stands by its criticism of
such unbiblical activity.
—PFO
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