Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Kelly:
Billy Graham is the guy who has the big Harvest Festival church here in
Riverside. His son has pretty much taken it over. That church takes
over two city blocks, and ties traffic up on Sundays for hours.
As for Schuller, I don't know anything about the man myself, but I do
know that he has a beautiful church and an awsome Christmas show as well
as an Easter one (I haven't seen that one though).
Didn't he plead guilty and get probation and a fine on that plane
incident? I don't know why the other people who came forward, but I
remember them doing so.
I'm really not into this type of thing so I can't make any expert
comments on any of it. I don't go along with the idea that a person can
buy his or her way into heaven, and that seems to me to be the thing
that these guys on television keep saying.
As for Graham and Schuller, I don't know enough about either of them to
say anything, except if they help someone, then more power to them.
Sue
>
> Dr. Robert Schuller is the man you are talking about. He is a Dutch
> Reformed preacher who was heavily influenced by Norman Vincent Peale's
> "Power of Positive Thinking" train of thought. In fact, Robert H.
> Schuller and Peale became close friends.
> About one year ago (perhaps it was two, I'll have to check my research
> notes) Schuller had some difficult times with a brain tumor that had to
> be removed. Since then, his son Robert A. Schuller, has been doing the
> majority of the work at the Crystal Cathedral.
> Dr Schuller has an impeccible record as far as integrity and financial
> honesty goes. His ministry is one of very few that is virtually scandal
> free. The incident that you are referring too, where he struck the
> airline attendant, was a combination of a mis-communication between the
> two individuals and some lingering problems from Dr Schuller's brain
> surgery.
> My guess, from what I know of Dr Schuller, is that the other attendants
> that came forward did so in an attempt to cash in on a possible windfall.
>
> The only criticism one can make of Schuller is that his brand of
> pop-psychology religion is rather watered down and simplistic. However,
> many seem to find comfort and help in his "God Loves You and So Do I"
> type sermons.
>
> As for Oral, he never did raise the amount of money he claimed to need in
> order for God to keep him on the earth, but apparently God forgave him
> and let him live on. To the best of my knowledge, Oral never did return
> the money that he did get in his fund raising campaign. ANd yes, Oral
> Roberts does have his own university. As does Pat Robertson: Regent
> University (well, "own" is a strong word, but Regent was created by Pat's
> religious organization)
> Schuller is more along the same religious evangelical strain as Billy
> Graham-however Graham focuses more on encouraging people to become "born
> again" where Schuller and the late Norman Vincent Peale focused more on
> positive thinking for positive living. It has been joked by Schuller that
> he was the first "Calvinist Methodist"
> Kelly
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