Robert Jeffress Quotes
I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.
Jeffress, Robert. Interview. The Christian Post, 25 Apr. 2014.
Innovator in this sense refers to one who innovates within Islam—who tries to change or reform the religion departing from the original message of the Prophet. Unfortunately there are many Muslims who believe and argue that the everything that is important or necessary for life is in the Koran. Therefore any idea or statement that is innovative is at best useless and unnecessary and at worst blasphemous. Therefore all innovation is to be discouraged and this is the main reason for the Islamic stagnation since innovation was encouraged during the first 300 years of Islam and Islam far surpassed the Christian world which itself was suspicious of anything innovative them,
From what is now Turkey. Once the Christians had become established, critics or reformers, were hard to understand as the Christians were a few hundred years earlier.
The Irish monks were loyal to the pope and were outraged when he was displaced by King Henry VIII. They were seen as a hotbed of disloyalty and therefore ordered to close. This is one of the many examples where an established government church dictated not only how people should worship but also prohibit other religions from functioning. These examples were well known to the American Founding Fathers and much of educated American opinion which was one of the drivers of the First Amendment and the separation of church and state.
Pope Innocent Iii was an interesting combination of primitive traditional Church inhumanity and intolerance for dissent and modern Christian views at the same time. Consider {45387} and {45384} for his proactive tolerance and protection of Jews and {45383} for his intolerance of Muslims and {45382} for his persecution of heretics.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Robert James Jeffress Jr. is an American Southern Baptist pastor, author, and radio and television host. He is the Senior Pastor of the 14,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas and is a Fox News Contributor. His sermons are broadcast on the television and radio program Pathway to Victory, which is broadcast on more than 1,200 television stations in the United States and 28 other countries, and is heard on 900 stations and broadcast live in 195 countries.
