Wow this has really became a Copeland bashing thread.
I never knew that much about the fellow until I started seeing threads about him. I didn't care about him one or the other until I started learning more about him.
You do realize Kenneth Copeland's Grandpa blessed him with a quite a bit of land and he almost got a pond built for free by listening to God, it only ended up costing him $600 for a giant pond.
What makes him think every idea that crosses his mind comes from God? I also found his telling the story garbled at times.
Did you notice how he would stop and laugh from time to time? He does that when preaching too. Sometimes it's very inappropriate in his sermons. I can tell you why people laugh like that. They laugh like that when confusion is hitting them. They are of two minds -- or as James put it, "double minded" on the topic. Laughter in the form of joke telling itself has two elements -- one is antisocial. I tell you a joke about something that makes you uncomfortable. If I can make you laugh, that is you saying, "There is something wrong here, but I can tolerate it -- I don't need to be angry or annoyed." Thus jokes should contain a grain of truth in order to be truly funny; and some people will not laugh at jokes if they can't accept the truth in them with grace and forgiveness. Copeland's laughter isn't like stage comedy. His confusion is internal.
I saw spin and more spin. I could spin the story about the red truck to say the truck was cursed. His wife's grandfather got to drive it, yes, but it gave him a stroke.
God has even used Tele-evangelists to lead prisoners to Jesus. Tele-evangelism on prison televisions used to be a big ministry to reach them, I don't know whether if it still is. But a lot of prisoners heard about Jesus that way.
Perhaps. It's news to me. I hear more about televangelists being sentenced to prisons than about them ministering to prisoners using television. How about Acton Bowers who put on a great show of being faithful to his wife by following Billy Graham's rule about never being alone with another woman? That looked great. He looked like a saint until it was revealed he liked little boys.
I guess such ministers would not need jets and expensive houses.
I'd want to see hard numbers over time myself before I was convinced. Billy Graham admitted before he died that he wished he had done things differently. He said he had put too much emphasis on the numbers of people who responded to altar calls at his meetings and not enough on making sure they kept on track later. Does it do much good if prisoners believe what a televangelist tells them if they return to crime when they get out? I hope you also know that religion can be used to scam prison officials. If you want out of prison early, you can often attend meetings held by Christians who visit your prison. If you put on a good act, you may impress the parole board and get released earlier than you would have otherwise.
I doubt trying to minister to people in prison using television would work that well. Many of them need someone they trust enough to talk to; and a good prison minister is showing the people in prison the Love of Christ. He shows up, doesn't get paid and is there to try to help them solve any problems they may have on their minds.