And, so, unlike most of his Sunday morning TV brethren, you will never hear Robert Schuller even mention Satan from his pulpit or promise hellfire and brimstone to those who fail to accept Jesus Christ into their hearts immediately.
Indeed. Nowadays, if Robert Schuller won't go to them, other clergymen flock to him by the hundredsat $175 per personwhen he stages his three-day institutes for successful church leadership at the Crystal Cathedral.
Perhaps best summarizing Schuller's religious retailing philosophy is one of his oldest, closest friends, Mike Nason, 40. Nason and his wife, Donna, in their fascinating biography of Schuller, "The Inside Story: Robert Schuller" (World Books, $10.95), write:
Not that it matters. Robert Schuller survived the stress and strain of those early years to build a $35-million empire. The centerpiece is "Hour of Power," launched in 1970 and now aired (at a cost of about $8 million last year, according to church officials) on some 190 TV stations in the United St
name to a Ford anytime." Interviewing Bradley, Schuller indirectly chastised any racists in his congregation by casually asking Bradley if he thought racism had lost November's gubernatorial election for him. That is as close as Robert Schuller comes to his pulpit to revealinghis personal opinions.
President Reagan has not yet appeared in Robert Schuller's pulpit, but he did invite the televangelist to the Oval Office for a casual chat last year, and such is Schuller's growing fame that he has even had a private audience with Pope John Paul II.
God in heaven, which of course I believe there is, then he can't abandon control (of human beings) to chance . . .. I'm sure Goddetermines persons and shapes their lives to achieve his purposes." In shore, Robert Schuller believes that God placed him on this Earth to preach possibility thinking.
With absolute confidence, Robert Schuller can and routinely will define incasual conversation such cosmic abstracts as sin, hell, salvation and the meaning of life. On the other hand, he is generally vague, evasive or, as he sometimes claims, simply "uninformed" on the most commonplace of secular i
