I feel sorry for him. Based on the public evidence, he rejected the narrow way of his reformed fathers and embraced the broad path of positive self-improvement. Only yesterday I was listening to a sermon and the pastor mentioned that Robert Schuller believes Muslims will be saved. Of course I can’t know the true man or what has happened to him in recent years. I hope he re-read his Bible and came to see the foolishness of “Self-Love” and the “Self-Esteem Reformation” he once called for. I hope he came to understand what Christ meant when he said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” In short, I hope he has been saved and is now trusting Christ and Christ alone.
“My father lived in Garden Grove in the 50’s and 60’s and went to his drive-in church a few times. He has said that in his early days, Schuller actually preached a gospel message, but soon began to compromise. At that time, Dad was a young man, immature in his faith. I suspect a more mature Christian would have detected the seeds of Schuller’s apostasy from the outset. Because of that early exposure to his ministry, Dad used to occasionally watch him on television in dismay. He couldn’t believe the man spouting “possibility thinking” was the preacher he remembered.”
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.”
Indeed!