Posted by Melvin Jones on November 20th, 2007
This is Satan.
Okay, it’s not Satan. It’s actually Jay Cameron playing the role of Satan. He’s the “starring” role in “Church Mafia”, a play written and produced by Mr. Cameron. The play explains how the guys I have been referring to as pimps operate.
I went to see the play last Saturday evening (November 17, 2007). And I have to admit, it was a hoot.
The play, about two hours long, lets us watch a nominally effective pastor go from a guy who is trying to make a difference (if somewhat ineffectively) to a wolf who is willing to deceive and intimidate the sheeple in order to get what he wants (power, sex, and a new building). Along the way he screws up lives, families, and the congregation in general.
The play is broken into about ten scenes. Between scenes Satan appears to give us insight into how the Church Mafia works. It was really outstanding to see in the flesh, so to speak, the mechanics we have been talking about on the site.
We see Pastor Cliff getting tutored in the gimmicks he can use to control the sheeple (talk about his anointing, talk about the vision God gave him, put himself between God and the sheeple, humiliate and intimidate them), the proper phraseology to use, and the best methods to ensure that the Sunday service has no content.
Satan would talk to us, berating us for not reading our Bibles, letting us know what the results would be, and basically explaining his game plan for neutralizing the church. I’m not sure which was better, seeing the scams in action or hearing Satan refer to the “pastor” as the Mand of Gawd. I got a chuckle every time they used it.
Several vignettes did an outstanding job of illustrating how much damage these wolves create. The scene with Monica, right after she found out that her fiancé wasn’t going to marry her because Pastor Cliff told the husband-to-be (a man with no ‘nads and fewer brains) that she was not right for him, was the most intense and emotional scene in the entire play. Hey, if it were up to me, I’d give the young lady a Tony.
It’s playing again on December 1 at the Life Center just south of I-495/95 on Branch Ave, Prince Georges county, Maryland.
While I can’t address the theology of the church, they certainly seem to have a good hold on the tactics and techniques of the pimps. Jay explained that he experienced about 80 percent of the contents in one form or another.
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