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TULSA, Okla. — Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University Wednesday that he did not yearn to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but he did so because God insisted.
God told him on Thanksgiving that he should resign the next day, Roberts told students in the university’s chapel.
“Every ounce of my flesh said ’no”’ to the idea, Roberts said, but he prayed over the decision with his wife and his father, Oral Roberts, and decided to step down.
Roberts said he wanted to “strike out” against the people who were persecuting him, and considered countersuing, but “the Lord said, ’don’t do that,”’ he said.
After submitting his resignation, he said, for “first time in 60 days peace came into my heart.” Roberts spoke only for a few minutes and was applauded and cheered by students. He wiped away tears with a white handkerchief and his hands.
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“This has nearly destroyed my family, and it’s nearly destroyed ORU,” Roberts said. A lawsuit accuses Roberts of lavish spending at a time when the university faced more than $50 million in debt, including taking shopping sprees, buying a reliable of horses and
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Losing My Religion: Seeking A Gospel of Inclusion
I was brought up during the late fifties and initial sixties attending my family’s church, Calvin Presbyterian on Little Creek Road in Norfolk. We lived in a white middle-class neighborhood, and everyone we paired with looked like us. I would resist having to attend church services and functions, but would do so in command to please my parents. The church teachings seemed so insular and conforming compared to what I was learning about the world in school and on television. And yet I knew the importance of Bible stories that illustrated the ideal of loving kindness toward strangers and teachings for living a virtuous life.
We watched a lot of TV back then and would sometimes watch televangelists appreciate Oral Roberts perform their healing miracles in their tent revivals. It was the religious equivalent of watching professional wrestling. They seemed so sincere that it was hard to believe that it was all a charade. Maybe God really did labor through supernatural intervention, if only we were to have enough faith.
The sixties were the early days of CBN and Pat Robertson’s ‘700 Club’ on television. The burgeoning network originally
US pastor, who believes floods are God's punishment, flees flooded home
US pastor Tony Perkins, who believes instinctive disasters are sent by God to punish male lover people, has fled his flooded home in Louisiana.
In 2015 he caused controversy when he agreed with a statement that spontaneous disasters are sent by God as punishment for abortion and gay marriage.
Mr Perkins has revealed that he was forced to escape his property in a canoe with his family.
He shared photos on Facebook and discussed his experience in a podcast.
"This is a flood of near-biblical proportions," he said in an interview with the Family Research Council.
"We had to escape from our home Saturday by canoe. We had about 10 feet of liquid at the end of our driveway. Our residence flooded, a few of our cars flooded."
In 2015, he interviewed extreme Messianic Jewish pastor Jonathan Cahn who told him that Hurricane Joaquin, which devastated Hawaii last year, was a "sign of God's wrath".
During the interview, Mr Cahn stated that the storm was a write God was angry about the legalisation of homosexual marriage and abortion and the relationship between the United Nations and Israel.
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