[Steve_Seattle]

"You put Charles Stanley up as a good example?"

"He belongs in the other camp."

I don't know what you mean by "the other camp." If you are saying he's a liberal, I disagree. I've listened to him 15 or 20 times, and he never struck me as a liberal. All I meant was that he seems sincere - he's not constantly talking about money, he's not proclaiming spurious healing powers, he's not spouting dubious "prophecy," he's not preaching the "prosperity Gospel," and his message seems very much within the bounds of traditional Protestant orthodoxy. (I am not a Protestant, so mine is an outsider's perspective.)

[webstersII]

He doesn’t preach prosperity, as you said, but he is quite wealthy just as all the others are.

Plus he said he would step down from the pulpit if he ever got divorced (he has always refused to marry divorced people and said divorced people should not preach) but he didn’t step down after he got divorced.

Just another preacher with a huge following. The rules seem to be different for them.

[mrvirgo]

Charles Stanley is not a phoney. He is one of the few televangelists that I trust.