Sadly, I am one of those who left for a Baptist Church. I long for a Pentacostal/Charismatic church. I

Some of Oral's most vicious attackers were religious people. Some of the people quoted here did not do their due diligence. ORU is debt free and owns the City of Faith. There are a couple Oral Roberts facebook sites with ORU alumni testamonials and they are worth looking at. And many will be surprised at Oral's financial state when he passed. John Piper and Oral Roberts are among my favo...more

Some of Oral's most vicious attackers were religious people. Some of the people quoted here did not do their due diligence. ORU is debt free and owns the City of Faith. There are a couple Oral Roberts facebook sites with ORU alumni testamonials and they are worth looking at. And many will be surprised at Oral's financial state when he passed.

John Piper and Oral Roberts are among my favorite preachers/teachers and importart
to my faith. I love John Piper for doctrine and Oral for grace........and for hope and healing.less

Rhi Bran......Have you done your due diilgence? Your comment made me wonder?

As an ORU Alumni, I beg to differ. Obviously, John MacArthur and Albert Mohler did not share my experience with Oral and at ORU. I am also in the MacArthur/Mohler/Piper camp and admire them, learn from them. From Oral, I learned grace........And from the others, and I love them dearly, a sense of dismisiveness for those who differ.

I am thankful for the influence you have had in my life. I can only hope for forgivenness/repentence/restoration with Richard.

A Bible with a picture of a televangelist in it, $5,000 and the televangelist will pray for you by name, his and her private jets.........A Porsche as an evangelistic tool.......it goes on and on.

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My roots are in the Pentacostal/Charismatic tradition. But seeing this article makes me cringe. After many years of exposure to these "evangelists", I put their books in the recycling bin and their tapes in the trash. And I have never looked back. It's idolatry pure and simple.....Nothing but a return to the indulgences of times gone by. The blessings of God are not to be bought and sold....more

My roots are in the Pentacostal/Charismatic tradition. But seeing this article makes me cringe. After many years of exposure to these "evangelists", I put their books in the recycling bin and their tapes in the trash. And I have never looked back. It's idolatry
pure and simple.....Nothing but a return to the indulgences of times gone by. The blessings of God are not to be bought and sold. Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple . And it needs to happen now.less

Went to a church in St Paul.....The Hannah Montana worship show lasted about an hour.....few sang and people stood the entire time......After which Hannah talked about how awesome worship was.....It was another church where the 40 something preacher tries to appeal to 20 somethings. We lasted 3 weeks.

Leith Anderson presents a wonderful non-offensive gospel....He is the change so needed in the church......Non-offensive, accomodating, emerging!!

I'm of the Pentacostal/Charismatic persuasion and have had much exposure to the prosperity/word of faith movement. I have been blessed to have spent 10 years listening to John Piper preach Romans and other topics. Too say that my time at Bethlehem Baptist Church is perhaps the greatest time of Christian growth and joy in my 45 years of following Jesus would be an understatement.

I didn't know he was a preacher, I thought he was an entertaining motivational speaker.

Whatever....Like others before it, this will soon pass, darkness does, what darkness is...Our God reigns !!

It is nothing more than the buying and selling of God's goodness and mercy. Is it any different from the sale of indulgences. These prosperity ministers seem to end up extremely wealty from the sacrifices and gifts of God's people. ;

Same old stuff; jets, vacation homes here and there. Good friends from other prosperity ministries overseeing your church.

As an ORU grad, this news is hardly surprising.....but God is good and ORU has a new beginning and her best days are yet to come.

The Body of Christ in the metropolitan city in which I live has many needs. Our very prominent local TV prosperity preacher has the requisite, vacation homes in Florida, jets, lake homes etc. and he's "overseen" by the Copelands

It is time to say, enough of this nonsense. Who is going to stand and say enough. I wish they would ALL just go away. This continuing behavior is an embarrassment.

It's about selfish materialism, the spirit of mammon, who do these guys serve?

I am an Oral Roberts University graduate and my beloved alma mater is going through the process of cleaning up the fruit left by the WOF and prosperity preachers. Kenneth Copeland calls himself a bilionaire, that must be important to him. Other ministers are concerned with missions and evangelism....some die for the cause of .Jesus Christ....I know what is imporant to them. I know who I will...more

I am an Oral Roberts University graduate and my beloved alma mater is going through the process of cleaning up the fruit left by the WOF and prosperity preachers.

Kenneth Copeland calls himself a bilionaire, that must be important to him. Other ministers are concerned with missions and evangelism....some die for the cause of .Jesus Christ....I know what is imporant to them. I know who I will follow.less