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Im curious about two things:

1) When the assembly was in its hey day, what was leaderships thoughts on The Left Behind Series?

2) What are peoples thoughts on The Left Behind Series?

In San Diego, we showed the first Left Behind movie as an outreach.  The preaching afterward had a basic disclaimer that this was just a movie, and not very accurate.
Personally, I feel it comes across like a soap opera.

I do feel that Tim LaHaye's dogma about a pre-trib rapture is a bit extreme.  He comes very close to saying that if you don't believe in a pre-trib rapture, you are a heretic.

The acting in LEFT BEHIND was a bit cheesy, although Kirk Cameron looked as good as always!

I think the Left Behind Series is very poorly written.  Did you know that LaHaye and Jenkins don't write them they are ghost-written at least most of them?
I long for a Christian fiction writer to write something that has some substance and not just cheesy romances and obvious plot lines.

a.  eulaha- i have to disagree with you on the kirk cameron topic...i find him rather unattractive

b.  pat, you may want to check with my mom...she does A LOT of reading and i know that she has read several christian series that she really likes.  she doesn't do cheese (as you may well imagine)...

c.  i wonder if tim g.  plans to pen a series of christian novels...say, "the big behind" series...

Well vbeers, you are definitely in the minority when it comes to Kirk Cameron's looks!  He was a major heart throbe and extremely popular with teenage girls for many, many years in the late 80's! 8)  I think I even had a couple posters of him on my own bedroom wall. ;)