TV Evangelists

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dcmac:
I am not willing to call them frauds, however the track record is not very forgiving now is it?

I also find even the good ones, like Dr. Billy Graham, have many “soft” snit-Catholic attacks.

For example, several years ago I watched a Billy Graham Crusade on TV where he told those watching the story of a priest who rode this bus and a black woman who also rode the bus. The black woman got up the courage one day to tap him on the shoulder and ask him if he was “saved.” At which point the priest was startled and went home, pulled the bible off of the top shelf in his clothes closet and opened it and read it truly for the first time. At which point he was “born again” and immediately left the priesthood, got married, became a protestant apologist and a teacher at a protestant seminary.

Now this is replete with “soft” anti-Catholicism. So, even with the good ones the ‘buyer be ware’.
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As a Southern Baptist, I don’t think this was meant as a stab at Catholicism. It was meant as an example that even some of the clergy in Catholicism can be out of tune with Christ. If given the opportunity, he probably would have said it about any number of the Protestant evangelists who have turned out to be duds. Every religious group has its frauds or people going through the mechanics of their job.
 
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AuntMartha:
Oh yes! Does anyone remember Ernest Angley? He started each show in a prayerful position with a goofy smile on his face while organ music played. Later in the show, he would have a whole line of people waiting for a “healing” and his trusy “catchers” by his side. He would shout, “Ah will HEAL you!”, say a short prayer, bop them on the head, and his trusty catchers would catch the person as they fell backwards and lay them on the ground. We always got a big laugh out of that show.

Aunt Martha
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I remember him on tv as a kid! Heal heal heal! He was obnoxious.
 
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Elzee:
A friend of mine really likes Joyce Meyer. What do you think of her?
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I like Joyce Meyer. However, she is not really a tv evangelist. She has a ministry that mostly figures in conferences and road trips. Her presentations are televised.

Ministers who have televised church services are not technically tv evangelists either. They just happen to be pastors of churches that televise their sermons. One is Dr. Charles Stanley. Another is Joel Osteen.
 
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Finex:
What do you guys think about benny hinn?
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There was a huge thread about him on here, its probably gone now.
Anyway I was talking to a guy who told me what he heard about BH. He is from Ukraine and so is one of his good friends, anyway, his friend’s family went to see a BH “sermon” and got there about 2 hours early not knowing anything about hinn but they were so exited to be at such an event because they had never seen one before. They arrived at this big open area with lots of seats. So they went and sat in the first couple rows and waited for the show to start. Then a security comes over and tells them they have to go, but the dad was mad that they got there so early and refused to leave. Then about 15 minutes before the show the security came over again, and the dad still said he wouldnt move because he got there first. So the show starts and after a quick intro by Benny, all of the sudden Benny takes off his jacket and throws it into the first few rows and the first few rows ran after it except that family. The security saw them not going after the jacket and quickly kicked them out of the show.
So anyway thats what I have to say.
 
dcmac said:
“Ah, being Slain in the Spirit…an interesting sight”

LOL! Actually is that a real term used by them? If so I retract my LOL and place instead a LI (laughing inside)
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Yeah, that’s what they call it…I would call it:rotfl: ROTFL, but that might be 😉 mistaken for, well, being, like, :o “slain”…
 
Do a Google for Benn Hinn Skeptics, you’ll come up with some interesting information.

Some of the things he said would be considered blatently heretical by almost all the major Prot denominations. I remember hearing about Benny calling himself a ‘little messiah’. His ‘miracles’ have been investigated numerous times, particularly one in which he claimed to have raised the dead! Some people that thought they had been ‘healed’ by Hinn have later died after not receiving medical attention…

I would stay away from the lot of them…particularly any that preach the Health & Wealth Gospel…it is the antithesis of True Christian faith. Jesus did not say ‘follow me & you shall have riches on this earth…’, besides…I don’t trust any ‘preacher’ who buys private jets and multi-million dollar mansions…
 
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Finex:
What do you guys think about benny hinn?
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From my experiences as a Southern Baptist, most I know think he is a quack. I do too.
 
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AuntMartha:
Oh yes! Does anyone remember Ernest Angley? He started each show in a prayerful position with a goofy smile on his face while organ music played. Later in the show, he would have a whole line of people waiting for a “healing” and his trusy “catchers” by his side. He would shout, “Ah will HEAL you!”, say a short prayer, bop them on the head, and his trusty catchers would catch the person as they fell backwards and lay them on the ground. We always got a big laugh out of that show.

Aunt Martha
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He had the worst toupee I’ve ever seen! :rotfl: :rotfl:
 
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AuntMartha:
Oh yes! Does anyone remember Ernest Angley? He started each show in a prayerful position with a goofy smile on his face while organ music played. Later in the show, he would have a whole line of people waiting for a “healing” and his trusy “catchers” by his side. He would shout, “Ah will HEAL you!”, say a short prayer, bop them on the head, and his trusty catchers would catch the person as they fell backwards and lay them on the ground. We always got a big laugh out of that show.

Aunt Martha
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He’s still on. He’s still shouting. The smile is just as:p goofy.People are still being bopped on the head…
 
TV evangelists drive me crazy!! I don’t ever watch them enough to remember their names, but every once in a while I’ll flip through to a Christian network and one will be standing on a stage screaming the entire sermon to the crowd. Why don’t they just say the sermon in a normal voice–I mean, they have a microphone and the people they are talking to aren’t deaf. I get so annoyed with their shouting and prancing around on that stage that I can’t even watch it. Then the people in the crowd always shout some sort of “amen” or other comment. It’s so loud and out of control it’s like watching Jerry Springer. Also, I’ve watched Benny Hinn, and I think he’s a complete fraud. I once caught an episode of his where he was defending himself because Dateline ran some sort of piece on him saying that he had asked his viewers for money to help some orphanage somewhere and they did an investigation and found out he had taken the money and the orphanage didn’t even exist. Poor Benny sat there calling Dateline liars and was desperately trying to prove the orphanage really did exist!! Also, who can forget the infamous Jim and Tammy Faye Baker?? They helped usher in the era of TV evangelists and then gave them all a bad name.
 
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