Hagin was perplexed by ministers who promise “supernatural debt cancellation” to those who give in certain offerings. Preachers who claim to have a “debt-breaking” anointing should not be trusted. Hagin did the math and figured out that if this bizarre notion were true, “we would have Christians walking around with not billions or trillions of dollars, but quadrillions of dollars!” He rejected the popular teaching that a believer should claim a specific monetary payback rate.ĥ. The “hundredfold return” is not a biblical concept. Hagin rejected this idea and said that focusing on what you are going to receive “corrupts the very attitude of our giving nature.”Ĥ. Faith preachers sometimes tell donors that when they give in an offering they should claim a specific benefit to get a blessing in return. Hagin was horrified by this practice, which was popularized in faith conferences during the 1980s. It is not biblical to “name your seed” in an offering. He wrote: “There is no spiritual formula to sow a Ford and reap a Mercedes.”ģ. Hagin was critical of those who “try to make the offering plate some kind of heavenly vending machine.” He denounced those who link giving to getting, especially those who give cars to get new cars or who give suits to get new suits. People should never give in order to get. Material wealth can be connected to the blessings of God or it can be totally disconnected from the blessings of God.”Ģ. Hagin wrote: “If wealth alone were a sign of spirituality, then drug traffickers and crime bosses would be spiritual giants. Here are a few of the points Hagin made in The Midas Touchġ. Financial prosperity is not a sign of God’s blessing. But in light of the recent controversy over prosperity doctrines, it might be a good idea to dust it off and read it again. Many Word-Faith ministers ignored the book. The Midas Touch was published in 2000, a year after the infamous Tulsa meeting. In fact, he wrote a brutally honest book to address his concerns. say he was passionate about correcting these abuses before hrubuke, distorting his message, greed, selfish indulgence,e died. He was not happy that some of his followers were manipulating the Bible to support what he viewed as greed and selfish indulgence. But before he died in 2003 and left his Rhema Bible Training Center in the hands of his son, Kenneth Hagin Jr., he summoned many of his colleagues to Tulsa to rebuke them for distorting his message. Hagin taught that God was not glorified by poverty and that preachers do not have to be poor. The folksy, self-trained “Dad Hagin” started a grass-roots movement in Oklahoma that produced a Bible college and a crop of famous preachers including Kenneth Copeland, Jerry Savelle, Charles Capps, Jesse DuPlantis, Creflo Dollar and dozens of others-all of whom teach that Christians who give generously should expect financial rewards on this side of heaven. is considered the father of the so-called prosperity gospel. Van, Texas was the last church he pastored before starting to travel.Charismatic Bible teacher Kenneth Hagin Sr. During the next twelve years, he pastored five Assemblies of God churches in Texas: in the cities of Tom Bean, Farmersville (twice), Talco, Greggton, and Van. In 1937, he became an Assemblies of God minister. In 1936, he founded his first non-denominational church. He preached his first sermon as the pastor of a small, community Baptist church in Roland, Texas. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. The Bible scripture in Mark 11:22-24 defined his ministry and was his most frequently quoted verse:Īnd Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. On August 8, 1934, he says he was raised from his deathbed by a revelation of “faith in God’s Word” after reading Mark 11:22-23. He remained paralyzed after his conversion. During a dramatic conversion experience, he reported dying, due to the deformed heart, three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life. He was not expected to live and at age 15 became paralyzed and bedridden. In April 1933 he converted to Christianity. According to Hagin’s testimony, he was born with a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. Hagin was born in McKinney, Texas, the son of Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin. Kenneth Erwin Hagin (Aug– September 19, 2003) was an American preacher. How You Can be Led by The Spirit of God – Kenneth E.
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