Purple Haize wrote:Jerry Sr was often accused of preying on the poor as well. Not sure that's a good standard to have. In fact any national Minister would be accused of that.
Apples and oranges. Sure, we all heard that. A lot. But I would hope we would have the discernment to see the difference between Jerry Sr asking people to give sacrificially to build a school or a ministry to serve others as opposed to "sewing a seed because God wants you to be rich". We knew Jerry wasn't using this money to live an extravagant lifestyle for himself.
Jr. introduced Paula White, was very laudatory, said she taught the world that not all Christians are Pharisees and invited her to address the students for a few minutes. That is "normalizing and approving of a person in a
spiritual way.
I was a member for many years and on staff at Rick Warren's church in CA and he got hammered unfairly for "Christianity lite" and being "liberal", etc. As such, I'm always circumspect to criticize someone else in ministry. I only speak out now about this because it reflects on a school I love and support. The Word Faith "theology" is aberrant and non-biblical. It's only very recent, when the word has lost all meaning, that it's proponents would have even been considered "evangelical".
Again, is there a line on who LU should have at convo specifically representing Christianity? Maybe Rob Bell? Hey, "having him there wouldn't normalize his views". "It's only convo and the students should listen to a wide variety of "Christianity".