Your familiarity with Paisley's ministry is lacking, and it is clear that you must not have ever heard him preach a sermon.
FReegards!
Your familiarity with Paisley's ministry is lacking, and it is clear that you must not have ever heard him preach a sermon.
FReegards!
Paisley's "ministry" was predominantly activist and political. I think it's fair to say that the primary focus of his work was not to bring people to Jesus as individuals but to ensure that collectively the (then) majority Protestant north, never fell under the sway of the hated, predominantly Catholic south. He wanted to ensure that Northern Ireland remained firmly tied to the United Kingdom. I have no doubt that he preached within the confines of his relatively small Free Presbyterian Church but that ministry was not the primary focus of his energies. He was not an evangelist as we understand the term here. I would say he was more akin to activist "reverends" like Sharpton and Jackson, although obviously their politics are worlds apart.
As the UK ineroxably embraced homosexual "rights", and other moral aberrations, I think he felt betrayed and he gradually retreated from view. He was also seriously ill in 2005 and later admitted to "walking with death" and I guess it's possible that this also affected his public personna.