![]() ![]() I’m following Jesus’ steps.” (“Ever Increasing Faith” program on TBN December19 1990].) That’s the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce. The Bible says that He has left us an example that we should follow His steps. “The whole point is I’m trying to get you to see-to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and the disciples were poor and then relating that to you thinking that you, as a child of God, have to follow Jesus. He also promotes the myth that Jesus was very rich and incorporates this into his theology of why every believer should be rich. (“Ever Increasing Faith” program on TBN Nov.16,1990). If you have to say, ‘If it be thy will or’ Thy will be done’-if you have to say that, then you’re calling God a fool because he’s the One that told us to ask…. We do we really insult Him without even realizing it. I mean, we really do insult our Heavenly Father. Sounds like humility, it’s really stupidity. Price who has become famous for his anti biblical stance of If you have to say, “if it be thy will or thy will be done- if you have to say that, then your calling God a fool.” He explains “What they told me to do was that whenever I prayed I should always say, ‘The will of the Lord be done.,’ Now, doesn’t that sound humble? It does. Say it and frame it, speak it and keep it. This developed him into being the chief exponent of naming it and claiming it. McConnell, The Kenyon Connection: A Theological and Historical Analysis of the Cultic Origins of the Faith Movement, a thesis submitted to the Theological Faculty, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK, May 1982, p. Price says: “ Kenneth Hagin has had the greatest influence upon my life of any living man … his books … revolutionized and changed my life.”( Taped interviews on file at the Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University cited in D. Hagin’s booklet “the authority of the believer.” Price claims that it was Hagin who had the greatest influence on his life. This all was left behind him after he read K. After he converted to Christianity he experienced many different denominations. Price claims he was brought up in a Jehovah’s Witness family. Price, Ever Increasing Faith (television program), TBN, 9 December 1990, available from Crenshaw Christian Center, Inglewood, CA (audio tape #CR-A2). Price, personal correspondence, 14 October 1992.ģ6) Pat Hays, “Betty Price Speaks at 1991 ‘Wisdom from Above’ Luncheon,” Ever Increasing Faith Messenger, Winter 1992,12-13.ģ7) Frederick K. ![]() Price, “Identification #3” (Inglewood, CA: Ever Increasing Faith Ministries, 1980), audio tape #FP545, side 1.ģ5) Frederick K. ,” Ever Increasing Faith Messenger, Summer 1989, 2.ģ4) Frederick K. Price, “Name It and Claim It! What Saith the WORD?. – Source: What’s wrong with the faith movement, Hank Hanegraaff, Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 3 (1993)ģ3) Frederick K. 36 Referring to his wealth, Price says the reason he drives a Rolls Royce is that he is following in Jesus’ steps. 35 Despite telling his followers that he doesn’t allow sickness in his home, Price’s wife has been treated for cancer in her pelvic area. He is seen nationally on television and has referred to himself as the “chief exponent of Name It and Claim It.” 33 Price has added his own unique twists to Faith theology by asserting that Jesus took on the nature of Satan prior to the crucifixion 34 and by claiming that the Lord’s Prayer is not for Christians today. His church in Los Angeles now claims some 16,000 members. įred Price is the most notable of a growing number of black prosperity preachers. – Source: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, Randall Balmer, Baylor University Press, Waco, TX. He is unabashed about the pursuit of wealth as a sign of God’s blessing and does not shy away from ostentatious displays himself. Price, an African-American, broadcasts his *PROSPERITY THEOLOGY nationwide with a television program called Ever Increasing Faith, begun in 1978. The congregation is multiracial and numbers well above ten thousand. He founded Crenshaw Christian Center in 1973, which now occupies the former campus of Pepperdine University in Los Angeles. Price’s Spirit *BAPTISM in 1970, however, set him on a denominationally independent course. He was converted to evangelical Christianity in 1953 and entered the ministry two years later, affiliating with a succession of denominations: Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, and *CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE. Price was born in Santa Monica, California, and reared as a Jehovah’s Witness. (1932-) One of the more brazen proponents of *PROSPERITY THEOLOGY, the notion that God will bless believers with affluence, Frederick K. ![]()
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