
He sat at the breakfast table Sunday morning, smiled at his wife, Oretha, and then sighed. Hagin went to bed Saturday feeling well, according to a news release from his ministry. Billy Joe and Sharon Daugherty, pastors at Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, said in a statement. "Our lives personally were changed by hearing him speak and reading his books," the Revs. He was known for his preaching and teachings on faith. In 1979, he founded the Rhema Prayer and Healing Center to provide a place for the sick to come and build their faith. The ministry has a weekly television program called "Rhema Praise" and a radio program, "Faith Seminar of the Air," which also appears on the Internet. His Faith Library Publications has more than 65 million books in print. He founded Rhema Bible Training Center USA in 1974, and it now has 23,000 alumni.įrom the start, he used the media of the day to reach his parishioners. A native of McKinney, Texas, he moved to the Tulsa area in 1966. Hagin's ministry was part of a nationwide healing revival in the 1950s and '60s. "His great legacy of faith will live on in the countless lives that have been healed, touched and changed through his ministry." 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way. "He preached what he lived," the younger Hagin said. presents powerful truths we need to live by daily and truths we need to activate activate in our. Kenneth Hagin was a Total False Prophet 'But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 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. Kenneth Hagin Jr., the pastor at Rhema Bible Church and executive vice president of Kenneth Hagin Ministries. Hagin taught that God was not glorified by poverty and that preachers do not have to be poor. "He wrote in his Bible, `The Bible says it, I believe it and that settles it!' " said his son, the Rev.
