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Article looks messy. Needs wikifying, categorizing, etc. Perhaps it should also be moved or renamed. Currently, Word of Life (small "o", which seems to be the correct spelling [1]) is a redirect to Livets Ord. Entheta 23:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
(moved from "Cleanup needed" section above by edi (talk) 23:06, 25 January 2009 (UTC)):
http://www.rumneybible.org/about/history.php Jack Wyrtzen and Billy Graham.
If one google's Jack Wyrtzen and "Youth for Christ" you get an infinite number of hits. Anyway I found this 60 year old Time magazine article that mentions Jack Wyrtzen, there is so much stuff out there. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,776614,00.html
Document Wyrtzen in long line of evangelists this last century from Billy Sunday. He first filled Madison Square Garden. He worked with the Navigators, he founded Mission groups to other nations that are still extant. He was a TV pioneer, as well as being on secular radio, WWOR. Wyrtzen warrants own page; the book "The House that Jack Built" is corroborated by the Wheaton archives. Edsargento —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edsargento ( talk • contribs) 02:06, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I believe it would be more logical to create a disambiguation page for both spellings of Word Of Life. I'll go ahead and do this in a few days if no one objects. this note will be left on both pages. -- Master Runner 22:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Though registered as Word Of Life Fellowship almost no one associated refers to them as that. In that case most people looking for information would search for Word Of Life or Word of Life. a disambiguation page is a very smart idea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.146.156 ( talk • contribs)
The article reads almost like a pamphlet for the organization. There are numerous uses of the First Person, and certain words are emphasized. Moreover, some of the wording used sounds like a promotion. Obviously, this article needs to be totally revised and given an NPOV. Kazhivlad 08:24, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I removed an edit by this user (see history) because it was unnecessary and didn't make much sense in context. He/She added a sentence disputing the number of people who have attended Word of Life's dramatic presentations, but the previous sentence already says that the organization "claims" that the number is correct, and there is already a {{fact}} tag on the sentence. It's therefore already clear that the claim is disputed (or at least questionable), and the added sentence simply created a POV statement within the article. I felt it was inappropriate, but certainly I'm willing to consider other points of view on the question. -- edi 22:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I worked in the WOL Gospel Productions ticket office for a year and a half when they were doing "Passion Play" instead of "Jesus--Behold the Man". We averaged at least 25,000 tickets sold between the two shows each year. With JBtM being new and even better than PP, I have no doubt that they could be seeing 35,000 people each year, but I changed the article to 25,000 just to be safe.
And for the record, if you haven't seen those shows, you should try to. They are AMAZING. I sometimes worked at the ticket booth in the foyer of the auditorium and we had so many people say, "This is better than some of the Broadway shows I've seen!" Having seen four Broadway shows myself, I can attest that these are absolutely on par with them. And the tickets are about 1/3 of the price of a Broadway show! Kimana517 03:01, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I am in agreement with the 06 posting that this is basically material lifted from promotional materials for the organization. Nothing I know of that is untrue but there is no attempt at an objective history. I started Bible Institutes for Word of Life in Australia (February, 1975 thru December, 1978) and the Philippines (January, 1980 thru June 1986) and was director of the Philippines branch from July, 1986 thru July, 1993. Having fallen out of favor with the leadership and having resigned from the mission in 1993, my personal history and contributions have been largely expunged from their formal records. And that is fine and their prerogative. However there are many other former staff members who have made extremely significant contributions over the years that are conveniently forgotten when they too have fallen out of favor. Having made this point, I am not sure that an objective history of the organization would be of any significant interest for research purposes anyway. Yet it does leave us with the consideration that this posting appears to exist for primarily promotional purposes. -- Jcorbinmauk ( talk) 08:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
The Organization is so interesting, yet like any other
Christian organizations, secular colleges, companies, banks all have history. And people who are in and out. I just think Jack was important to 20th century American history. -- Edmundosargento ( talk) 00:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Between Word Of Life, and what has been going on for years at Westminster Seminary or Cedarville University or what played out or is doing so now in the Fundemetnalist/Evangelical or Emerging Church movements and backlashes -- Edmundosargento ( talk) 16:12, 1 February 2009 (UTC)