Dr. Scott is like no one else you'll ever see behind a pulpit. If you'd never heard of him, and I described him to you, you'd swear I was making him up.

A man of obvious intellect and education, he was...he was...not easy to describe. Look, read these two articles about him.

http://gregstacy.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/gene-scott-gods-angriest-man

http://archives.wittenburgdoor.com/archives/genescott.html

He had an incredible sense of theater and to watch him was to watch a master at work. He used his rage like a conductor's baton, controlling the masses of his listeners with the flick of his fingers.

His theology, especially in later years, was--there's no other word for it--bizarre. I've heard him say the Garden of Eden was on the planet Venus and the Egyptian pyraminds were fulfillment of prophecy. He's said much stranger things. Yet he had a grasp of the resurrection of Christ that was absolutely clear and untwisted. As long as he stayed in that arena, he was orthodox.

But he often went afield and, I'm sad to say, ended up as a bitter, enraged, weary man with a cult following and an inescapable celebrity. The more materially successful he became, the more he seemed to believe his own press releases.

YouTube has Warner Herzog's documentary on him, here's pt 1 of 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hsJx_dI40

The one overriding element of Dr. Gene Scott was passion. The man had no neutral gear. He was a man of his convictions and compared to every other televangelist, a honest and absolutely unafraid to be who he was. What I take away from him is the necessity for honesty and for fearlessness. Once you start preaching the Gospel, you must not be afraid of anyone or anything.

I'm not an actual student of Dr. Gene Scott, but I never let his fundraising antics blind me to the depth of study he'd completed or to the significance of his message.

His entire ministry was built around the simple refutation in the poor logic of anyone claiming that Jesus was just another great teacher. He affirmed unequivocally the reality of the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ in the very semantics of the secular humanists who most try to detract it.

With all his scholarly background, everything else is commentary.

He specialized in not preaching to the choir. I think nothing emphasizes the effectiveness of his ministry more than the change God made in the life of Pastor Melissa Scott. I'm not going to mention any details of the past she put behind her, because she has a right to. In every broadcast she acknowledges having been the worst of sinners. She does not credit her late husband with working that change in her, but she credits Christ, as her late husband taught her.

The mere facts that she can preach so knowledgeably now, and break down the etymology of so many Biblical languages now, indicate how God worked through Gene Scott, because certainly no man would have seen the cute girls he had sitting in the front row and perceive such potential.

Anyone who's actually read his treatise on the reality of Christ's resurrection can't dispute that he believed in it, and that God used him to reach a unique audience with mind's closed to the "superstitious" side of Christian faith.