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Donna Schuller said her husband, Dr. Robert A. Schuller, the son of Dr. Schuller, has a document detailing precisely how the older Schuller wants his memorial service to be held.
“He gave it to my husband 10 years ago,” she said. “Perfectionist that he is, I’m sure he has planned out and specified every little detail.”
Donna Schuller said passing during the holy Easter week would be a fitting exit for her father-in-law.
“He always did everything in a grand fashion,” she said. “It’s just like him.”
Dr. Robert. H. Schuller started the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955, renting the Orange Drive-In
Theatre and conducting services from a snack bar roof. As the congregation grew, the Protestant ministry began broadcasting its services through the “Hour of Power,” a syndicated TV program broadcast to millions of viewers worldwide.
In a separate story, the OC Register said that the Crystal Cathedral was dedicated in 1980. The cathedral and the grounds were sold in early 2012 for $57.5 million in bankruptcy-court proceedings to the Catholic Diocese of Orange. The facility has been renamed Christ Cathedral.
The ministry moved to St. Callistus Catholic Church about a mile away and is now called Shepherd’s Grove. Schuller’s grandson, Bobby Schuller, is now pastoring the church and is now the host of The Hour of Power TV telecast.
Although the name of the church is Shepherd’s Grove, the congregation’s corporate name continues to be Crystal Cathedral Ministries and continues to produce the “Hour of Power”
program.
Arvella Schuller, the wife of the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, who was said to be the force behind the church’s iconic “Hour of Power” television program, died in February of 2014 at the UCI Medical Center after a brief illness. She was 84.
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.
FoxNews Alert:
FoxNews is reporting that Rev. Schuller has died at the age of 88.
I just saw an article that he had died.
Prayers for him.
BTW, White Horse Inn has the audio of a very early interview with Rev. Schuller available.
I just listened. Wow. I can only hope his personal faith and theology changed toward the end.