True Story! :)
Posted on 07/24/2015 12:07:22 PM PDT by fishtank
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE: APOSTLE OF SELF-ESTEEM
Republished September 16, 2009 (first published April 26, 1997) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) –
Norman Vincent Peale died on Christmas Eve, 1993, at the age of 95. He was one of the most popular preachers of the twentieth century. His famous book The Power of Positive Thinking has sold almost 20 million copies in 41 languages. It was on the United States best-seller list for a full year following its publication in 1952 and has been in print continuously ever since. Peale pastored the Marble Collegiate Church, a Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City, from 1932 until 1984. At the time of his retirement the church had 5,000 members, and tourists lined up around the block to hear Peale preach. For 54 years Peale’s weekly radio program, The Art of Living, was broadcast on NBC. His sermons were mailed to 750,000 people a month. His popular Guidepost magazine has a circulation of more than 4.5 million, the largest for any religious publication. His life was the subject of a 1964 movie, One Man’s Way. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at wayoflife.org ...
"Though Peale rarely spoke in clear theological terms, he did on occasion openly deny the Christian faith. In an interview with Phil Donahue in 1984, Peale said: “It’s not necessary to be born again. You have your way to God; I have mine. I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. ... I’ve been to the Shinto shrines, and God is everywhere.” Donahue exclaimed, “But you’re a Christian minister; you’re supposed to tell me that Christ is the Way and the Truth and the Life, aren’t you?” Peale replied, “Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.” Peale told Donahue that when he got to “the Pearly Gates”, “St. Peter” would say, “I like Phil Donahue; let him in!” Mr. Peale gave comfort to some in the audience who believed that “just so we think good thoughts” and “just so we do good, we believe we’ll get to heaven” (Hugh Pyle, Sword of the Lord, Dec. 14, 1984)."
Apostle of Selling Books. Can’t limit your market to only Christians, don’cha know.
I posted this because, yesterday July 23rd, 2015, a prominent presidential candidate referenced Norman Vincent Peale as his pastor (of course from a while ago, since Peale passed on several years ago...)
True Story! :)
The article is not as rosy as your posted graphic.
Ping.
“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” ~ Vince Lombardi
If NVP was good enough for Saint Vince, he’s good enough for me! :)
Oh, that’s too bad. I get a LOT out of Positive Affirmations!
Which one?
Jn 3:3: Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (KJV).
Donald trump would got to Norman Vincent Peale’s church on 5th avenue.
I always thought of Peale as promoting the golden rule.
The golden rule however, does not save anyone. It often makes your life better in many ways, but that isnt what saves a person.
I never regarded Peale as offering Christian advice. Secular moral advice from a golden rule refrence frame, but not Christian.
It was especially sad for me to see him contradict Christian teaching, for a personal reason. As a child, my mom was a big fan of his and had his Positive Thinking book. I read it, and by God’s grace, the only thing that made a huge impression on me from that book was his practice of praying silently for random strangers that he encountered.
For me, this was a gateway drug to being completely sold on following Jesus anywhere and being His hands and feet in the world, doing His work, and fighting out the life-and-death issues that are in the balance in every life.
Way back in the early 70s a local TV station carried his weekly sermons from Marble Collegiate Church in NYC. I was a thorough Fundamentalist Protestant back then and could only shake my head when I listened to him.
But I have a question for my friend wideawake: Is "transcendentalism" necessarily heretical? I know the New England Transcendentalists were certainly heretics from an orthodox chrstian perspective, but at the very root isn't "transcendentalism" merely a recognition of certain truths that "transcend" the facts of science and materialism?
A president’s theology has great repercussions, on who they nominate for the supreme court, how they stand on moral issues that matter so much to conservative Christians.
Trump, being a passionate follower of Norman Vincent Peale “theology,” if you could call it that, is bound to have great repercussions. Peale wasn’t even a Christian, for heavens sake, he didn’t believe Christ is the only way to God. Such considerations poses grave doubts in my mind about Trump.
Fine as a motivation speaker, but nothing religious about it.
I’m not sure if Alex will be back. He was a casualty of the internecine RF battles.
Sounds like another mega church pastor in TX who smiles too much.
Trump.
Yep.
“Do good”, which is OK advice, but it is NOT the gospel of salvation.
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