Adrian Rogers, former pastor Bellevue pastor, passes away 11/15/05

Love Worth Finding ^ | 11/15/2005 | self

[pamlet]

Thanks for the welcome!

You know I'm continually amazed when I hear a true man of God speak..

The pastor of our church is a quiet man... and VERY unassuming.. yet when he preaches you can literally hear and see when he is preaching what God would have him preach. I can't explain it.. it's NOT a "fire and brimstone" experience .. but an ENERGY and flowing of words. Sometimes those sermons are tough to hear - but I'll tell you I come away knowing that God has given Rick the words...

[MamaB]

He was the pastor of the church my niece went to. He was a great man and will really be missed. May God bless his family.

[MamaB]

Add me to the SBC list. Thanks.

[Blogger]

One of the giants of the faith. Now with Jesus. This world's loss.

[trussell]

Prayer ping.

Rest in Peace
 ADRIAN ROGERS

My prayers go up for all who now mourn Pastor Rogers' passing.  

Blessings,
trussell

If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

Add me to the SB ping list!

[pepperdog]

As you know, because you took us to your church, we were privileged to hear him only once and it was a wonderful experience. He was a great man.

[Blogger]

Add me also.

[WKB]

Thanks and welcome aboard
I love your name and the song

[WKB]

Thanks and welcome aboard.
Shoot we may be big as the big Catholic ping list
fore long. :>)

[tutstar]

Thanks trussell!!

If anyone would like to be on a Baptist ping list, please freepmail me!

May God bless the legacy of Dr. Rogers and comfort his family in their grief!

[Ingtar]

I'm sorry to see the man go; I was hoping my son would be able to learn more from him. I know that he his in a better place, but that is little comfort to those left behind in the immediacy of his death.

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in prayer lifting up all of those who are dealing with his homegoing!!!

[wardaddy]

RIP

[nmh]

Nah, he's a genuine man of God ... unlike others ... .

;)

[nmh]

Same here ... he was brilliant and spoke ONLY the Word of God - no excess nonsense.

What a sad day this is for us but a glorious day for him. There is NO doubt in my mind that he is in heaven with his baby boy who died on Mother's Day.

[nmh]

He was incredible!

A TRUE Christian.

Check out his website:

http://www.lwf.org/

Pick anyone of his broadcasts. He is a rare gem.

[WVNan]

I have so enjoyed his messages on my local Gospel music station. May he be seeing the face of God at this moment. God bless and comfort his family. We are losing too many of our saints. Let us join in prayer for strong Bible-based leaders to step into their shoes.

[tiki]

God rest his soul.

[nmh]

His passing was a total shock to me. I had no idea this was going on:

Adrian Rogers undergoing medical treatment
Nov 8, 2005
By Staff
Baptist Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has been hospitalized for double pneumonia.

“He was admitted last Thursday and is responding to the antibiotic treatments,” Bill Skelton, executive vice president of Rogers' Love Worth Finding radio and TV ministry, told Baptist Press Nov. 8. “As of this morning, he was resting comfortably, and prior to this incident he was responding well to the chemotherapy.”

Rogers, 74, who retired earlier this year as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn., has been undergoing treatment for colon cancer the last several months, following surgery May 16. [related report]

Skelton directed those seeking updates on Rogers’ condition to check the Love Worth Finding Ministry Web site, www.LWF.org. He also thanked Rogers’ friends and well-wishers for their concern and encouraged them to continue to intercede spiritually.

“Dr. Rogers’ family and the staff of Love Worth Finding greatly appreciate the many kind expressions for Dr. Rogers’ quick and full recovery,” he said. “We covet your prayers on his behalf.”
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http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=22028

Adrian Rogers ‘buoyed up by prayer’ as chemo begins
Jun 17, 2005
By Art Toalston
Baptist Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--“I am doing well,” Adrian Rogers said June 16, for someone “in my category” of battling cancer.

“I am optimistic about full remission,” the former Southern Baptist Convention president said after spending three days at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and returning June 16 to his Memphis-area home.

Speaking in a clear, conversational voice that sounded pulpit-ready, Rogers told Baptist Press he is grateful for the prayers of Southern Baptists for his recovery from colon cancer that has metastasized onto his liver.

Cancerous polyps were found in a routine colonoscopy that prompted surgery to remove part of his colon May 16.

Rogers, who retired earlier this year after 32 years as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn., said he and the doctors at M.D. Anderson “have made plans for a treatment to attack this malignancy and I expect to continue to do my full work and continue with the [Love Worth Finding] radio-television ministry and the pastor training ministry and teaching at Mid-America Seminary [in Memphis].

“I’m grateful for prayers,” Rogers continued, “and I am in good spirits and confident in God’s grace and power. In a way, it’s hard to quantify what prayer means, but you can feel in a very strange way being buoyed up by prayer.”

Rogers said he and his wife, Joyce, “have had no morose or down attitude but a sense of joy and peace and expectancy through all of this. And I attribute that not to mere positive thinking but to this enormous amount of prayer that has gone to heaven on our behalf. And we also expect God, in answer to prayer, to heal.”

Rogers said he will undergo two chemotherapy treatments per month “for the foreseeable future.”

“This is not industrial strength chemo,” he said, “but it all has a way of making you nauseous for a couple of days after you take it.”

Rogers, who was elected SBC president in 1979, 1986 and 1987, reaffirmed he will speak at the SBC Pastors’ Conference on June 20.

“I’ll be preaching Monday night,” he told Baptist Press, “and I want to hear you shouting.”

Rogers’ latest book, "What Every Christian Ought to Know: Essential Truths for Growing Your Faith," was published this spring by Broadman & Holman, the trade books division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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