[Peter Plunker]

Blimey you lot have been busy.

Right, let's clear up a few smaller things first.

Dave does not have a 'church' or people that follow him. He's a full time minister that goes around the country and abroad ministering in churches. As far as I'm concerned there is only one church anyway, it's like a tree with loads of branches.

I've known Dave for over ten years. The intoxication he speaks of has only increased over the last four years but has been spoken of in the church for two thousand years. The bible makes many references to God's presence being like wine and in the book of acts on the day of pentecost the early church founders came rolling out of the 'upper room' and people thought they were drunk, the response was 'These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine in the morning!' acts 12:15.
The intoxicating presence of God does indeed feel like being drunk or indeed stoned. It isn't mass hysteria or something that is whipped up. Sometimes I feel it just doing my job, or washing the dishes, or driving my car.
Psalm 16;11 says ' You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.'

1 Corinthians 2:14
14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Dave is not a preachy guy, he's just himself. You cannot however separate Dave from God. Nor should people try to. It's like accusing John James of preaching about Australia becuase he has an Oz accent.

If you have real axe to grind then contact Endemol with your concerns, don't throw up all kinds of dispicable accusations that bear no truth.

No doubt people will still criticise him and your perfectly entitled to do that. My faith (and Dave's) is rugged enough to withstand petty criticism. Just remember, you don't know him, I do.