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Was just reading this guy's bio - first off, just wanted to throw this out before I get to the points - it seems like over the course of many, many, many years, the youth get targeted to get groomed for influential leadership positions et al. For example, throughout my years in school, they would give these high level awards to students - but it was NOT ONLY for academics, but for many other reasons(showing leadership, doing other community work, being well liked by their peers, doing challenging projects, etc, etc). It occurred to me recently that it seems like they're targeting certain youths at an early age to groom them for later on. Here's one example - Bill Clinton was a DeMaloy(sp) member when he was a young boy(which is Freemasonry for the youth).
Same with Charles Spurgeon - apparently, he was groomed at an early age to become the pastor of one of the most popular churches in the world(Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England), as well as a popular evangelist. It was in his early 20's when he took over, and prior to that, he taught Sunday School.
Anyhow - here's Weirsbe's bio - apparently, this guy started writing books when he was a teenager, and his first interest was WITCHCRAFT, believe it or not!
http://www.christianbook.com/html/authors/1466.htmlDistinguished Professor of Preaching at Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary, Warren Wiersbe is the author of more than 100 books. Billy Graham calls him "one of the greatest Bible expositors of our generation." Interestingly,
Warren’s earliest works had nothing to do with scriptural interpretation. His interest was in magic, and his first published title was Action with Cards (1944).
"It was sort of imbecilic for a fifteen-year-old amateur magician to have the audacity to write a book and send it to one of the nation’s leading magic houses," Warren says. But having a total of three books published by the L.L. Ireland Magic Company—before the age of 20—gave him a surge of confidence. In later years, he applied his confidence and writing talent to the Youth for Christ (YFC) ministry.
Warren wrote many articles and guidebooks for YFC over a three-year period, but not all his manuscripts were seen by the public eye. One effort in particular, The Life I Now Live, based on Galations 2:20, was never published. The reason, Warren explains with his characteristic humor, is simple: it was "a terrible book...Whenever I want to aggravate my wife, all I have to say is, ‘I think I’ll get out that Galations 2:20 manuscript and work on it.’" Fortunately, Warren’s good manuscripts far outnumbered the "terrible" ones, and he was eventually hired by Moody Press to write three books.
The much-sought-after author then moved on to writing books for Calvary Baptist Church. It was during his ten years at Calvary that Expository Outlines on the New Testament and Expository Outlines on the Old Testament took shape. These two works later became the foundation of Warren’s widely popular Bible studies known as the Be series, featuring such titles as Be Loyal (a study on Matthew) and Be Delivered (a study on Exodus).
Several of these books have been translated into Spanish.
His next avenue of ministry was Chicago’s Moody Memorial Church, where he served for seven years. He wrote nearly 20 books at Moody before moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he and his wife, Betty, now live. Prior to relocating, he had been the senior pastor of Moody Church, a teacher at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a producer of the Back to the Bible radio program.
During all these years of ministry, Warren held many more posts and took part in other projects too numerous to mention. His accomplishments are extensive, and his catalog of biblical works is indeed impressive and far-reaching
(many of his books have been translated into other languages). But Warren has no intention of slowing down any time soon, as he readily explains: "I don’t like it when people ask me how I’m enjoying my ‘retirement,’ because I’m still a very busy person who is not yet living on Social Security or a pension. Since my leaving Back to the Bible, at least a dozen books have been published, and the Lord willing, more are on the way."
