Posted on 04/03/2014 1:48:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Marcus and Joni Lamb?
Very pleased to see Matt Chandler on the list. His books, “The Explicit Gospel” and “To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain” are some of the most profound yet readable works I’ve read by a contemporary Christian author. That, and he’s funny. And is in remission from brain cancer. And is the pastor at my kid’s church in North Texas.
Your list has more influence with me for sure. Piper, Mohler, and Chandler are the only men on the other list I pay any attention to whatsoever. Then again, I believe in sovereign grace.
Tim Keller - A great intellect, but not an Evangelical. Keller is a mainline Protestant of the diocesan variety and should not be included.
REv. Keller is PCA, which I have never heard referred to as "mainline".
“The late pastor and radio evangelist J. Vernon McGee”
I grew up listening to J. Vernon McGee and after I became a Catholic I still listen to his “Through the Bible” series. He was a great pastor.
Really makes you wonder about the motive of the writer to use the results of 30 people to show everyone who the most influential evangelicals in America are.
I mean, there are some heretics on this list that unless they change their teachings and truly accept Christ as their Lord and savior, will be frying in hell one day.
Several of them are representative of what is wrong with American Christiany.
But I suppose that is influential too.
Bingo.
Tim Keller is NOT a mainliner. He is ordained in the PCA. I’ve attended his church a cohple time. Very impressed with what is happening there.
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), of which Rev. Tim Keller is a member, is the second largest Presbyterian church body and the largest conservative Reformed denomination in the United States.
The PCA split off from PCUSA because of the latter’s trend towards Theological liberalism.
The churches of the PCA sought to reaffirm the Westminster Confession of Faith as the fullest and clearest exposition of biblical faith, which many conservatives felt that PCUSA presbyteries had been violating by recieveing ministers who refused to affirm the Virgin birth and bodily resurrection, and to call all pastors and leaders to affirm the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result they also felt the church should disavow the ordination of wome
Prophetics seem to have been overlooked when compiling this list.
Aside from Tim Keller, D James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, RC Sproul of Ligonier Ministries a popular teacher-scholar and Phil Ryken, President of Wheaton College are all PCA ministers.
The late Francis Schaeffer of L’Abri is considered a foremost evangelical Christian thinker and a PCA minister.
Well, there you go. Thanks.
Not a very good list. Some of the very best are not listed.
And some on the list should not be.
RE: Not a very good list. Some of the very best are not listed.
You hit the nail right on the head. The list considers the “most influential” not “the best”.
In a better world, the best should be the most influential. Unfortunately, we live in THIS world where people prefer to listen to things they like instead of what they SHOULD be listening to.
Nothing new under the sun. This has been happening since Biblical times.
I’m very surprised to not see Dr. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas mentioned.
Anybody know who the twenty most influential secular humanists are in America?
Regardless of who they are, they seem to have much more influence in this secular humanist nation.
R.C. Sproul and Ravi Zacharias ought to be on that list.
Ravi Zacharias
Chuck Swindoll
Charles Stanley
David Jeremiah
Alistair Begg
Billy Graham?
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