Posted on 04/28/2006 9:01:49 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
Benny Hinn?
Yep to #3
Of the top ten, it looks like five excellent choices and five that are not so good.
To 63.
We lost a great one this past November. I see a bunch of fakers on this list too.
Not a peep out of the mainstream press when they were slashing Joel Osteen and Rick Warren to ribbons about the Potter's House so-called MEGA-Church.
Go figure?
Yikeroni, that hurts to look at. Benny better bob and weave more than usual.
Adrian Rogers was one of my favorite TV preachers.b'shem Y'shua
And where's Jack and Rexella?
~snif~
That's just beautiful.
She'll show up at disability Expo's also. She's Evangelical {A non denominational church I think she attends} and has a very good testimony on faith and adversity. When she was 17 she was swimming and did a bad dive breaking her neck and severed her spinal cord at C-4 I think a high quad. That was in 1967. Nearly 40 years in a wheelchair. I've read most of her books and they are very down to earth and inspiring. Much of it follows Paul's teachings on adversity.
She will visit any Christian venue or group. She also has a great singing voice as well. A miracle in itself as singing requires using the stomach muscles which quads generally do not have. She is an accomplished painter. She can not use her hands to do this so she uses her mouth.
She gives the most descriptive insight to the struggle and conflicts a person can have to be struck like this both in the day to day dealing with it and the spiritual struggle as well.
I see no reason why she can't be linked as she runs a NPO. Joni and Friends There is a statement of faith in the site also and a lot of other good information.
When she started her ministry there weren't many churches that even considered the needs of the disabled. Most actually were impossible to even get into with a wheelchair. As more and more persons survive spinal cord injuries and disorders her ministry has reached more and more persons in wheelchairs, their care givers and families, and others who learn of her life.
He'll be missed. I watched quite a few of his shows and John Hagee as well to gain better insight to Jewish tradition as related to the Gospel.
Yes, The last I heard, Joni was a Reformed Episcopalian.
I saw a Reformed Episcopal church website that sure read like they knew her well....
Thanks I had to do a some looking on Calvinism. I actually never read the description. I have no conflict with it and pretty well go along with the basic concepts myself for the most part. From what I remember reading from her books it's a good description of her beliefs. But she would minister to any Christian belief just the same a Roman Catholics will to Protestants. {I've seen ample examples of that also and me and my wife hold some Nuns dear to our heart}.
I've seen her in person and she doesn't try to lead anyone to abandon their church to another {a big plus in my book meaning be where GOD has placed you}.
I think this sums up the ridiculous nature of this article pretty well:
Is Joel Osteen more influential than George Bush? As much as Bush pisses me off lately, I think he's more influential than Joel Osteen.
Unless they mean "most influential on Christianity." But then, how is the Pope ranked below Sean Hannity? Because the Pope isn't in America? Then why is he ranked at all.
My only conclusion is that what the article REALLY means is:
"Quick, name a Christian!"... and the magazine has a very, very atypical selection of readers.
I mean, T.D. Jakes??? Here's what Wikipedia says:
"He currently is the pastor of The Potters House, a primarily African-American Pentecostal megachurch in Dallas, Texas, which has often been accused of Oneness Pentecostal doctrines. His church services and evangelistic sermons are broadcast on The Potters Touch, which airs on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Other aspects of Jakes' ministry include an annual revival called "MegaFest", an annual women's conference called "Woman Thou Art Loosed", and gospel music recordings."
Um, my pastor told me to star away from loose women. :^D
They call him the black Billy Graham. Sounds much more like the black Jimmy Swaggart.
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