A couple years ago a survey was done and it found that the name Rick Warren was obscure to most outside of American Evangelicalism. I think the same is true of this list. I only recognize 6 of these names and couldn’t tell you much about the ministries of any of these. This caused me to do a “gut check” on my actual influence. Am I a little fish in a big pond or a big fish in a little pond? Am I content with the influence God has allowed me to have?

I know of the names Bill Hybles, Andy Stanley, Craig Grochelle and yes even Todd Rhoades because I’ve been intrigued by their kingdom strategies and their success and I have searched them out.

I know of the other names because they represent the culture that most influences me, I am a part of, I am African American.

As I look forward to yet another Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, I contemplate many things. I wonder when we, as a country can turn around what Dr. King once said “"Eleven o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America,”

I wonder too, why so many African Americans willingly attend churches led by a Caucasian Pastor, however very few Caucasians will attend a church pastored by an African American Pastor.

I think the worlds need to unite rather than collide, I have seen how powerful both worlds are at reaching the lost for Christ. We would leave Satan all but totally impaled if we would but unify.

I would say that as far as I’m concerned only two have influenced me personally, Tony Evans and Rick Warren.

Unless you count negative influence!  And then I would say Paul and Jan Crouch and Kenneth Copeland.

CS,

I was thinking something similar, although our list and percentage might be different. Also, I’m familiar with about half the list.

btw, is Kirk Franklin a pastor? I didn’t know that. I know he’s an amazing (and one of my favorites) musician.

Apostle ?!! Fred Price?????
I can’t see it.

As a pastor whose an American of African Descent I know all the people on that list but I also know many Americans of European Descent such as Bill Hybels, Andy Stanley, Ed Young, David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll, and so many more. It’s all about broadening your horizons to hear the gospel from men and women of various “streams” of Christian thought.

To often though many whites don’t have a clue who among blacks are very well known on the Christian scene, and I believe that, that lack of knowledge keeps us from coming together & and building relationship with each other.

I’m sorry but the color of the individual means nothing to me as much as fidelity to Scripture. Anyone who preaches the Word of God in context and is faithful to rightly divide Scripture will get my undivided attention and support.  The fact that a majority of those listed are African-American means nothing because I can give you twice as many white false teachers and prophets. The fact of the matter is their habit of preaching unbiblical doctrine or as Scripture puts it “...doctrines of devils.”

CJH

The “style” in which you deliver the message has nothing to do with being a false teacher.  When someone says on Benny Hinn’s “This is Your Day” (that is your first clue) that your prayers are what enable God to act because without them, God can do nothing(Myles Munroe), that makes him a false teacher.

Creflo Dollar teaches that true believers, if they have faith they’ll never get sick. Interestingly enough, he does this while wearing eye glasses. Also, since God created all things and had them produce after their own kind...therefore dogs make dogs; cows make cows; horses make horses;… and you and I were created by God in His image (after His own kind) that now makes us little gods! Care to defend that teaching?

Paul and Jan Crouch...I don’t the time to enumerate all their heretical teachings.

Kenneth Copeland and his wife Gloria have taught that you have the power to rebuke and eliminate bad weather by telling it to go away. (where in Scripture is that taught?) Kenneth said that when you sin and take it to Jesus, He will keep it from the Father so that it will only be between you and Him. In other words, Jesus keeps secrets from God the Father.  He also prophesied in Dallas TX in 1987 that Jesus spoke this through him:  “Don’t be disturbed when people accuse you of thinking you’re God. Don’t be disturbed when people accuse you of a fanatical way of life. Don’t be disturbed when people put you down and speak harshly and roughly of you. They spoke that way of me, should they not speak that way of you?” “The more you get to be like me, the more they’re going to think that way of you. They crucified me for claiming I was God. But I didn’t claim I was God; I just claimed I walked with him and he was in me."Hallelujah. that’s what your doing. (printed in Voice of Victory vol.15.no.2 1987) Need I say more?

“God can’t do anything in this earth realm except what we, the body of Christ, allow Him to do. Now that statement is so–that’s so–that’s so foreign and so contrary to tradition that, like I said, if they could get their hands on me right now most evangelicals would burn me at the stake and dismember me and feed me to the crocodiles, because they’ll consider that statement to be just heresy.” This quote is from “Apostle” Fred Price (I use the term apostle loosely).  In other words, we are sovereign and God is not.  Is there a Scripture verse that backs up this teaching?  Not to mention that he tells us that Kenneth Hagin is his mentor. Yeah!! This guy is soundly Scriptural!

Rick Warren’s loose use of Scripture and how he uses it completely out of context to make his points are clearly documented in his best-selling Purpose Driven Life.

So you are right...by definition these people are not teaching the truth therefore they are false teachers. PERIOD!