700 Club and CBN Icon Scott Ross Dies: ‘The Big C is Christ’
By Movieguide® Staff
CBN reporter and host of the 700 Club, Scott Ross, died on August 10, 2023.
Ross was a celebrated broadcast reporter and TV personality, whose decades of work with CBN looked more like ministry for Ross than just another reporting job.
CBN reported:
Scott Ross is well known to 700 Club viewers for his many years hosting multiple CBN programs, and his always entertaining, in-depth interviews with Hollywood stars, musicians, and public figures.
In an interview with Country music legend George Jones, Scott asked:
Scott: Feel forgiven?
George Jones: I really do. I really do.
Scott: You can accept that. You’re not angry with yourself anymore? God loves you, you love you?
George: I’m not angry with myself like I was. No, sir.
According to CBN, Ross earned 5 “Billboard” awards during his tenure in New York City. Before joining CBN, Ross’ program was syndicated on 200 stations.
However, the fame and early success led Ross to look inward and evaluate his faith, which he had been brought up in as a child.
In an interview from 2018, Ross shared:
I was from Scotland, my dad was in ministry. I’d given my life to the Lord when I was five. Came to America when I was 10. Uh, but the challenges of a new culture and a number of other things, I-I walked away from the Lord for a long time.
So, when I was in New York, I-I wasn’t really walking with the Lord. So, I came back to the Lord in a small church outside Hagerstown, Maryland where my mom lived, where I’d lived, and I came down to visit her, with Nedra, and mom wanted me to go to church. And, I went to church, but I stood in the parking lot and got high first, on grass. I got high and went to the church.
And – but I always say this. I sat in the – way in the back where the Lord couldn’t see us, but in the middle of this church service, someone had a ‘word’. There were two people there that the Lord was calling and said, you know, ‘Come back to me. I’ll take your cares, your worries. Put them on me.’
Ross, along with his wife Nedra Tally Ross, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band member of The Ronettes, relied on their faith in God throughout their illustrious careers.
Not only did Ross interview celebrities such as Pat Boone, Mel Gibson and Jim Caveizel, but CBN also remembered his work in New York following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In 2015, Ross was diagnosed with Cancer, but his strong foundation in faith helped him keep his eyes set on Christ.
CBN reported Ross saying: “You know, the Big ‘C’ is not cancer. It’s Christ. The Big ‘C’ is not cancer, it’s the cross. The Big ‘C’ is Calvary. The Big C’s commitment, it’s covenant. So, it’s not cancer.”
Ross continued: “When the Lord’s talking to Jeremiah and he says, ‘I took you into a desert,’ uh look at all the times that God was quiet, he didn’t answer. That’s where trust comes in. That’s where faith comes in. And you have to hold to that. You must.”
Ross was also a dear friend to Movieguide® founder and publisher Dr. Ted Baehr, who said that “Scott was a great friend… we talked for hours.”
Please join Movieguide® in praying for Ross’ family, and the family that he formed in his decades long career at CBN.
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