Why do people hate td jakes

He has twice been a featured speaker at Promise Keepers stadium events and has co-hosted both the Club and Praise The Lord.

He pastors a church less than three years old that has 17, members, with extensive outreach programs to the poor and disadvantaged. Presidential front-runner George W. Jakes has authored 18 books and eight have appeared on national Christian best-seller lists. This article will explore his successes and contributions, and whether there is any substance to the criticism he has received.

Jakes was born on 9 June and grew up as the youngest son in a South Charleston, West Virginia family. His mother, Odith, was a home economics teacher who taught all of her children to cook, clean, and sew. His father, Ernest, was an entrepreneur who had 42 employees working in his janitorial business. When Jakes was 10, his father developed kidney disease, and the boy spent the next few years helping to care for his father. When his mother became ill two months before his graduation, he dropped out of high school to help care for her.

He also dropped out of West Virginia State University after a year in order to take a job. Jakes felt called to the ministry at age 17 and began preaching part-time while he was a student at West Virginia State University and while working at a chemical plant. He eventually became part-time music director at the Baptist church in which he grew up. In , he began full-time ministry after the chemical plant where he worked closed and his father died of kidney disease.

In , he moved his ministry to South Charleston. The congregation then grew from members to more than In , he also began his weekly television program, Get Ready with T. Later that year, he moved his ministry to Cross Lanes, West Virginia. The congregation grew to nearly 1, members of all races, including 40 percent Caucasian.

Jakes Ministries, the nonprofit organization with currently employees that produces his conferences and television programs, distributes his tapes and videos, and manages his crusades.

Jakes met his wife, Serita Ann Jamison, while he was a guest speaker at her church. They have been married since and have five children. Grant had been. As many as 5, people attend each of the four three-hour services every weekend. A crew tapes and edits the sermon, which is played on cable television and sold after the service.

Jakes Ministries sells about two million videotapes a year, not including conference sales. Even sign language is done bilingually. On 1 March , T. Martin Luther King, Jr. He speaks to the pain women are experiencing, whether that pain is a marriage that is falling apart, the loneliness of being a single mother, physical abuse, or any mistreatment. He started the WTAL conferences because he saw this pain while counseling women individually.

He sees the conferences as mass counseling sessions. The WTAL conferences and several of his books appeal to the emotions of women. Controversial issues have been kept off-limits in most churches. Jakes comes out and addresses sexism as a sin. This is the message women want to hear. The issues that Jakes deals with — rape, battered women, and how to find healing make the difference. In his books, Jakes explicitly addresses issues with which women struggle.

Not only does he speak to struggles that may date back to childhood experiences, but he also offers solutions. He speaks in a compassionate way that convinces women he cares. He points out that some women are victims without being molested. A war that we are losing.

You cannot expect the whole human race to move over because you had a bad childhood. I wanted to be made better, not bitter. Jakes appeals to men as well as women. The yearly Manpower conferences teach men how to be men. He mentors men regarding their responsibility toward their families. He teaches that a real man provides for and protects his family. He says there are just as many abused men as women. Jakes even purchased subscriptions to GQ magazine for the men in his organization to help them learn about manhood.

We are warned not to allow false teachers to teach in our churches nor give them any encouragement v. And if we do, we share in their evil deeds v. Liardon further claims he was shown a building filled with unclaimed body parts hair, eyes, skin, legs, etc.

This heavenly warehouse of unclaimed body parts is overstocked according to Liardon simply because here on earth believers fail to appropriate them by faith. But I respected him as a man of God and we just prayed over it and received it. Jakes with such well-known Word of Faith and Counterfeit Revival teachers raises troubling questions about him. One minister wrote that he shared a Rev. Jakes tape with college and professional athletes. Yet he said he knows very little about the man and asked for help in discerning the right and wrong in his teaching.

CRI has received two e-mails sent by T. Jakes Ministries to people inquiring about that subject. We have never denied the Trinity, and we are disappointed that anyone would misunderstand or misrepresent us. The meaning of the term Trinity , according to historic Christianity, is that within the nature of the one God co-exist three equal and eternal persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jakes Ministries and historic Christianity both use the word Trinity , but the meaning of the word appears to be different.

Walter Martin taught us that we must scale the language barrier of the cults. We must recognize the reality that unless terms are defined, a semantic jungle will envelope us, making it difficult, if not impossible, to properly contrast orthodox Christianity with teachings outside it.

On the T. The position taken by T. Jakes Ministries remains problematic. This interview was aired on KKLA With our limited minds we try to comprehend a limitless God. How can we explain one God but three distinct manifestations? Robinson affirmed that Jakes denies the biblical position of the Trinity, at one point saying that the Roman Catholic Church introduced the concept of three gods. Robinson gave some modalistic illustrations of the Trinity and said that Jakes has always held this position.

Robinson never responded. Jakes since he was a young man. Jakes Ministries since as a faithful partner. He is a leader and elected bishop of this group. He confirmed that the Assembly has a Oneness view of the Trinity and that T.

Jakes has been part of this association for about seven years. Around this time Jakes, still eager to be a minister, founded Greater Emmanuel Temple of Faith, a small, independent, Pentecostal congregation in Montgomery, West Virginia. The church quickly began to grow from the ten founding members meeting in a small storefront to two hundred and then three hundred attendees. Jakes soon came into contact with Bishop Sherman Watkins who had founded the Higher Ground Always Abounding Assembly, which at that time was an association of more than two hundred Pentecostal churches.

Watkins ordained Jakes and suggested that he plant a church in the Charleston Area. In Jakes moved to Charleston and began to focus on the spiritual concerns of the women in his church, many of whom were in abusive or other otherwise difficult relationships. By he had moved his congregation to Cross Lanes, West Virginia, where the mixed-race congregation exploded to more than 1, people.

The next year he established T. Jakes Ministries to produce televised sermons and conferences. Today some 17, people call it their home church. His annual MegaFest event draws up to , people each year. He has written more than 30 books, many of which have appeared on the lists of bestselling Christian books. A gifted speaker and excellent communicator, Jakes has been widely praised for his teaching and his leadership.

He has acted in or produced several movies including the current Heaven Is For Real. Among his acquaintances he counts both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. Jakes is associated with several troublesome teachings including the prosperity gospel and positive thinking. For our purposes, though, we will look at his teaching on the Trinity.

Jakes has long been associated with Oneness Pentecostalism which holds to an unorthodox position on the Trinity. This position is known as Modalism or, historically, as Sabellianism. Modalism holds that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit do not refer to distinct persons in the godhead, but to different modes of existence of a single person.

It teaches that in ages past God manifested himself as the Father, during the incarnation of Christ he manifested himself as the Son, and subsequently he manifested himself as the Holy Spirit. As one of its key tenets it states that God cannot exist in more than one mode at a time. So while this teaching does hold to a form of trinitarian theology and while it does proclaim the divinity of Jesus Christ, it denies that there are three distinct persons who together make up the godhead.

Where historic Christianity affirms persons , modalism demands use of manifestations or modes. Jakes has wide influence in many circles. Some 17, people attend his church on a weekly basis and millions more encounter his teaching through his broadcasts, conferences, movies, and books.

He is one of a few Christian figures who has a voice that extends into the broader culture through association with Oprah Winfrey, American presidents, and other leaders. These minor distinctions in trinitarian theology, a word here, a letter there, actually represent colossal differences and even eternal differences—the difference between heaven and hell.

In all that is, in all that exists, there is only one God. No truth was more precious to the Israelites of old. There is no other god besides me a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.