I am surprised Mike Hukabee isn’t on that list.
I’ve heard of #’s 1, 2 and 3.
The late, great Baptist conservative minister E.V. Hill.
Hagee?
Several thoughts:
1. Influential has nothing to do with sound doctrine.
2. Billy Graham, is he a preacher or an evangelist? IMHO a preacher has a flock and tends to them. He has done much to spread the Word, but did he minister to a local body?
3. Rick Warren is a neo-Gnostic. Do we really want to include him?
4. John Stott was just phenomenal.
5. Bill Hybels has done more to destroy the local church and move us towards an model where you can hide in plain sight. A survey conducted in his church in which a majority of memebers said they wanted more doctrine. His reply was they need to be taught to be self-feeders. Not taught, not feed by the pastor.
6. Tim Keller pastors a megachurch, but is committed to planting churches. He is sound in the pulpit and his books are bestsellers. I have worshiped at Redeemer several times. My heresy radar never went off. I think he should be higher than 25, maybe in the top 10.
7. Where the heck is R.C. Sproul? He is one of the drivers of the resurgence of Reformed Doctrine in the US.
8. Also where is James Montgomery Boice and Donald Grey Barnhouse? Their influence spread way beyond 10th Pres in Philadelphia.
Putting people like Driscoll, Hybels and Warren in that list tells us how much things have changed--and not for the better...
Chuck Smith
The fact that Andy Stanley is ahead of his Father makes me suspect this list has at least some bias.
I see Sam Kinison didn’t mke it.
I see Sam Kinison didn’t mke it.
but not hidden from the influencers in media, the arts, and the ‘higher’ culture of America from New York City”
I have never heard of Tim Keller...but I sure like that description. I’ll need to look into him....
2Cor 12:10-12
Just food for thought & prayer...
The Catholics are right to question the lack of Catholic "preachers", but wrong to think they have any.
I was reared in a Catholic family until I received Jesus at the age of 33 (PLENTY of meat for a meal in THAT one .. ) and when I attended my first Sunday morning Sunday school then church service back in 1981, I was floored to hear a man speak the way Pastor Arrowood spoke.
I now know it to be preaching, but back then, totally unchurched and neophitical (if that ain't a word .. it SHOULD be), I was amazed how someone could speak, stay on subject, laugh, cry, chastise and I guess a few more ... just from one or two verses from the Bible.
I never heard that in a Catholic church from a priest.
Just to stir the pot a bit ... Lester Rolloff
Fr. John Corapi before he fell.
Andy Stanley hosted Michele Obama in his church a while ago. My nephew attends that church and told us about it. I have no respect for him or his church. I guess it’s a very contemporary, airy-fairy place.
Charles Stanley is an amazing preacher. I’m surprised Vernon McGee is not listed. Like Adrian Rogers, McGee has passed on, but his sermons are still being heard every day.
Although calling himself an “apologist” rather than a “preacher”, Ravi Zacharias is the guy I appreciate hearing more than anyone else. Listening to “Let My People Think” really does make you think.
What? Smiley didn’t make the list? Is this the most influential “good” or just influential?
Wonder if the DU trolls are foaming at the mouth and spilling their bile yet.
You missed the greatest of all time.
Fulton Sheen
Max Lucado is not on this list?
Deeply flawed list.