Posted on 09/19/2003 11:49:02 AM PDT by chance33_98
Reverend Kenneth Hagin, Sr. Dies
Friday September 19, 2003 9:56am Posted By: Kevin King
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Tulsa - The founder of Rhema Bible Training Center has died. The Reverend Kenneth Hagin passed away Friday morning at the age of 86.
Hagin had been hospitalized since Sunday after collapsing at his home.
Hagin was also the founder of Kenneth Hagin Ministries, which has touched more than 100 countries.
He was a native of McKinney, Texas and began preaching at age 17. In 1966, he moved to the Tulsa area, where he founded the Rhema Bible Training Center and Rhema Bible Church eight years later.
The Rhema Bible Training Center now has more than 23-thousand graduates and the church has more than eight thousand members.
Hagin also authored several books, including "The Ministry Gifts: Thirteen Lessons," "Growing Up Spiritually," and "Art of Prayer."
Hagin is survived by his wife, son and current Rhema Bible Church Pastor Kenneth Hagin, Jr., a daughter, Pat Harrison, as well as five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be announced at a later time.
Darn, musta forgot about that little detail when asking for other goodies.
Going only on that snippet of a statement, I would say that this attitude accounts for much of the disgraceful, wretched, inexcusable, God-dishonoring, fatheaded, un-Biblical malise and ill-health of the professing church of Christ.
"Salvation" is not an external fire-insurance policy that one obtains by checking a box and going on as one was.
Except a man be born again, he shall not see the kingdom of heaven. If (and only if) we continue in Jesus' words, we are genuinely His disciples, and know His freeing truth. If we love Him, we must keep His commandments. You've heard of those, I trust.
We are saved by grace alone, but make no mistake: we are SAVED by grace alone. Saved FROM, and saved TO.
If we're unchanged, we're unsaved.
Dan
Biblical Christianity web site
It was an ultimately cruel message that discarded those believers with physical afflictions and indicated there was something wrong with their faith or walk with God.
- Tongues-speaking charismatic Kenneth E. Hagin (born 1917) is known as the father of the "Word-Faith"/"Positive Confession" movement. (See endnote for a detailed description of the Hagin ministry empire.) In his The Word of Faith magazine, Hagin teaches the following heresies: Receiving healing, just as receiving salvation, is simply a matter of appropriating what already belongs to us (6/90); healing is included in the gospel (8/92); God does not afflict people with sickness and disease (12/90); he (Hagin) went to heaven and talked with his sister (6/91); Jesus appeared to him in a vision in 1950 (8/91); he once went to hell in an out-of-body experience (9/91); he does not believe in sickness and disease (7/92); it is always God's will to heal the sick (12/92); believers have a legal and redemptive right to divine healing (1/93). Hagin says: "Your confession of faith in God's Word will bring healing or whatever it is you need from God into the present tense and make it a reality in your life!" (12/92). (Reported in the 2/1/93, Calvary Contender.)Again, I'm not passing judgment on Hagin or his critics. Just posting it for education....
- In an early-1990s edition of his magazine, The Word of Faith, Hagin clearly delineates his heresy of "positive confession." The article was entitled, "You Can Have What You Say":
"Often you create your own negative situations yourself with wrong thinking, wrong believing, and wrong speaking. So start believing according to God's Word. Then begin making positive confessions of faith and victory over your life. ... You will never receive anything from God beyond the words you speak. ... If you don't like what you have in life, then begin to change the way you are thinking, believing, and speaking. Instead of speaking according to natural circumstances out of your head, learn to speak God's Word from your spirit. Begin to confess God's promises of life and health and victory into your situation. Then you can begin to enjoy God's abundant life as you have what you say!"
This is not a slip of the tongue or some new doctrine. This is at the heart of the Positive Confession (PC) movement today, also known as the "name-it-and-claim-it" gospel. The Positive Confession movement is a charismatic form of Christian Science. This can be substantiated by simply comparing the similarities in their common beliefs. Positive Confession is basically warmed-over New Thought dressed in evangelical/charismatic language.
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