Five Proofs for Pretribulationism

 

Ascension, Rapture and Second Coming

 

Problem Parables - Stanley D. Toussaint

 

The Good Samaritan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jywttx4Z8-Y

Dr. Stanley Toussaint, Senior Professor Emeritus of Bible Exposition, walks through the parable of the Great Samaritan and reminds us that what we see determines how we will respond, and that response exhibits who we are inside.

The Grumbling Workers 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtuEe-uPFls

Dr. Stanley Toussaint, Senior Professor Emeritus of Bible Exposition, through the parable of the Grumbling Workers that God is sovereign and generous, one with whom there is no bargaining.

The Shrewd Manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP8JviIQ9aU

Dr. Stanley Toussaint, Senior Professor Emeritus of Bible Exposition, teaches from the Parable of the Shrewd Manager and issues the challenge to leverage influence and money for the Gospel.

The Rich Man and Lazarus

https://youtu.be/8Js310j8WLk?si=AWx72PlJV_UFh2JK

Dr. Stanley Toussaint, Senior Professor Emeritus of Bible Exposition, continues his journey through problem parables, focusing on the Rich Man and Lazarus, and issues a challenge about priorities and perspective.

Baptism in Romans 6

Pastor Tod Kennedy
https://todkennedy.com/handouts/baptism-in-romans-6/

1. The verb is βαπτιζω (baptizo). The nouns are βαπτισμα (baptisma)and βαπτισμος (baptismos). The literal meaning is to dip, plunge, use water as a rite, baptize. The figurative meaning is to overwhelm, to indicate an extraordinary experience, to associate or identify   someone with someone or something.
2. Baptism in Romans 6 is a figurative use. Believers are associated or identified with Jesus Christ. The believer died with Christ through baptism and therefore died to sin. This was Paul’s point in Romans 6.
3. There are those who claim Romans 6 means water baptism. We can then ask a question? Does Romans 6 apply only to those baptized in water? Did Paul only write to a special group, those who were baptized in water, and then these were the only ones who have been freed from sin’s control?
4. The answer is no. Paul wrote Romans 6-8 to all the believers in Rome, and to all believers everywhere. Paul wrote that all believers have died with Christ and were raised with him and now sin no longer reigns or rules believers. If this is water baptism the application is limited to a smaller group.If this referred to water baptism, why did Paul not stress baptism more in his writings?
5. Why did Paul write 1 Corinthians 1.12-17 if water baptism is so important in the Christian life? Yes, the context in Corinthians is that Paul does not want believers to take sides and divide the church in Corinth, but still, Paul does not seem to indicate that water baptism is so important to the Corinthians.
6. We find further support that Paul does not mean water baptism in Romans 6 by the fact that the Bible identifies seven different kinds of baptism. Three are wet baptisms and four are dry baptisms. Romans 6 is a dry baptism and this baptism in Romans 6 stresses that each believer is so associated or identified with Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection that sin no longer need control him and he can live a new kind of life now, a resurrection kind of life.
7. The three wet baptisms use water.
   1. The baptism of John meant that one believed John’s message that the kingdom promises were about to be fulfilled through Jesus, the promised Messiah (Mark 1.1-8; John 1.19-28).
   2. The baptism of Jesus by John was a one-time only baptism. This baptism identified Jesus with God the Father’s plan that Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah, the savior of the world, and the king of Israel (Matthew 3.13-17; Luke 3.21-22).
   3.  Church age water baptism emphasized a believer’s relationship with Christ in Christ’s death to sin and resurrection to new life (Matthew 28.19; Acts 8.12 and 16; Acts 16.33; 1 Corinthians 1.13-17).
8. The following four baptisms are dry baptisms.
   1. The baptism of the Holy Spirit began after Pentecost and is unique to the church age; each believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit and made a member of Christ’s spiritual body, the church (1 Corinthians 12.12-14; Galatians 3.26-28; Colossians 3.11-13). This was prophesied by John the Baptist (Matthew 3.11, Mark 1.8, Luke 3.16) and by Jesus (John 14.16-17, Acts 1.5). Peter, in Acts 10.44-48; 11.15-18, explains the coming of the Holy Spirit upon those in Cornelius’ house as that which Jesus  had predicted when he said in Acts 1.5, “you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
   2. The baptism of Moses occurred during the Exodus. Israel was baptized into Moses when the nation went through the Red Sea and was led by the cloud during the day; the nation was identified with Moses, their leader (1 Corinthians 10.2). They were not plunged into water.
   3. The baptism of the cup is a figure of speech which Jesus used to identify himself with his suffering and death on the cross. Jesus said that both James and John would also drink his cup, by which Jesus meant that they would suffer severely for him (Mark 10.38-39; Mark 14.36; Matthew 20.22-23; Luke 12.50).
   4. The baptism of fire is a reference to some kind of judgment upon those who reject Christ as Messiah. It will probably be fulfilled at his second coming to earth (Matthew 3.10-12; Luke 3.16-17). Mark 1.8 and John 1.33 are parallel passages and omit the baptism of fire because they also omit the judgment material that Matthew and Luke contain.

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History of Religion and Christianity

 

This was the original meme or cartoon.

Notice that a Catholic Priest...and you could just as well have and Orthodox Priest...representing Christianity.

But with all my illustrations...I saw it needed to be fixed.

Is--am is at war with everyone...Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Jews and Christians...hence the leader on a pile of skulls.

Religion has their wars with heretics...i.e. antisemitism and Christians. Hence the priest on a pile of skull along with the intellectual works of Eastern and Western Civilizations.

The bloody Star of David represents the religious, unbelieving Jews who have persecuted and killed believing Jews and Christians in the from the first century. They will support the Beast during the tribulation.

They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.…John 16:2 & 3

The intellectual works of Eastern and Western Civilizations is superimpose with the Star of David. Judaism, despite its faults, has had great influence on intellectual works of civilizations...with the Bible being the foundation and peak of those works. This represents completed Jews who have accepted Jesus as their Messiah

Christianity is represented by believers who together form the cross...the heart of our faith is Jesus' death. burial and resurrection. The intellectual works of Eastern and Western Civilizations is the believer's contribution to the intellectual works of civilization through a biblical world view.

The Chronology of the Holy People of Matthew 27:51-53

Nisan 14 Wednesday

Passover Preparation Day

Leviticus 23:5 The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

1 Corinthians 5:7 For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 

3 pm

Luke 23:44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Psalm 31:5 When he had said this, he breathed his last.

Jesus' soul and spirit is sent to His Father until His body is buried


Matthew 27:50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

Resurrection of the Holy People

51 At that moment:

• the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 
• The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and 
• the tombs broke open. 
• The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

From 3 pm to 6 pm (sunset) the "holy people" would wait in their tombs until Jesus' resurrection.

Matthew 12:38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 

Nisan 14
3 pm to 6 pm

The Burial of Jesus

Luke 23:50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, 51 who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. 53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. 54 It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin. 

Nisan 15 Thursday, first night

Passover

After 6 pm (sunset)

Special Sabbath day:

Leviticus 23: 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

Luke 23:55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.

Jesus' Resurrection

53 They (the holy people) came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection

After Jesus' body is buried in Joseph from Arimathea's tomb and the stone is rolled across the entrance...the Jesus' Father send His soul and Spirit back to His body, accompanied with the Spirit, and He descends to the comfort side of Sheol Hades Luke 16:19-31...body, soul and Spirit.  

Ephesians 4:9...he also descended to the lower, earthly regions...

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago 

Romans 6:4  Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father...

Romans 8:11  Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead...

The Witness of the Holy People of Jesus' resurrection 

Matthew 27:52 The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

During Jesus' three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, the holy people go from their tombs to Jerusalem to bear witness of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. 

Imaging the wonder, the panic, the fear of the Jews during Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread when a loved one or friend knocks on the door and say "Jesus of Nazareth, that was crucified, has raised as He said He would and has, like Jonah, gone to our ancestors in Abraham's bosom." 

But the scribes and Pharisee could not believe this report from the holy people. Their unbelief and fear would try to prevent Jesus' resurrection by securing His tomb with the Roman seal and with Roman guards. 

Matthew 27:62 The next day (Thursday Nisan 15), the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

What they did not know was that Jesus' tomb was empty, He was giving them the sign of Jonah as they had demanded from Jesus, 

Fast forward to Saturday, Nisan 17, the regular weekly Sabbath Day before Sunday, Nisan 18, after sunset, that would begin the fourth night since Jesus' burial.

The Sabbath

Leviticus 23:3 “‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

Nisan 18, Sunday
Fourth day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Beginning of the Feast of First Fruits.

Offering the Firstfruits 

Leviticus 23:9 The Lord said to Moses,

10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn:

• Christ, 
• the firstfruits; (the holy ones in Matthew 27:51-53)
• then, when He comes, those who belong to him.  (the rapture 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.” 

Please look at the chart I created at the top to illustrate 1 Corinthians 15:22-27

On Nisan 18, after Sunset this is what happened to the holy ones. 

Jesus' ascension from Sheol/Hades with the soul/spirits of the Old Testament saints

Jesus descended to Sheol/Hades as Savior, Jesus now ascends as High Priest. 

1 Peter 3:19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago

After the soul/spirit of the Old Testament saints are gathered to be taken into heaven, because Jesus' blood had atoned their sin and opened heaven for them to enter, Jesus ascends with a loud proclamation like "It is finished!" that is heard into the torment side of Sheol/Hades "to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water. 

Ephesians 4:8 This is why it says:

“When he ascended on high,

    he took many captives

    and gave gifts to his people.” Psalm 68:18

9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)

As Jesus ascended the holy people (body, soul and spirit) in Jerusalem are gathered to be Jesus' Firstfruit Offering at the Temple in Heaven. There they offer praise and worship before Jesus' throne in heaven as their King. 

List of evangelical Christians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_evangelical_Christians

• Christianity portal

This is a list of people who are notable due to their influence on the popularity or development of evangelical Christianity or for their professed evangelicalism.

Historical[edit]

(This list is organized chronologically by birth)

• William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531)
• John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress
• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening
• John Wesley (1703–1791), English clergyman; founder of Methodism
• Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
• George Whitefield (1714–1770), English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
• Isaac Backus (1724–1806), advocate of the separation of church and state
• Henry Venn (1725–1797), founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain
• John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing Grace
• William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet/author of numerous hymns, including "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
• Francis Asbury (1745–1816), founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• William Wilberforce (1759–1833), worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire
• Henry Thornton (1760–1815), banker, philanthropist, reformer and Member of Parliament
• Richard Allen (1760–1831), founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination (1816)
• William Carey, (1761–1834) British missionary to India. Known as the "father of modern missions"
• Nathan Bangs (1778–1862), editor of the Christian Advocate, president of Wesleyan University
• Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
• Henry Venn (1796–1873), grandson of Henry Venn, pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory
• Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), Scottish preacher and minister of St Peter's, Dundee
• Joseph M. Scriven (1819–1886), Irish poet, moved to Canada and wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• William Henry Green (1825–1900), chairman of the Old Testament committee for the American Standard Version (1901)
• Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1899) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), leaders in the Holiness movement
• William Booth (1829–1912) and Catherine Booth (1829–1890), founders of The Salvation Army.
• James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission
• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism
• Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist, pastor and educator

Twentieth century[edit]

(This list is organized chronologically by birth)

• Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), blind American writer of many famous hymns including "Blessed Assurance"
• Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910), Scottish Baptist minister
• Joseph Parker (1830-1902), theologian, Congregationalist minister, pastor of City Temple
• Edward McKendree Bounds, (1835-1913), American author and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy
• Phineas F. Bresee, (1838–1915), founder of the Church of the Nazarene
• Albert Benjamin Simpson, (1843–1919), preacher, writer, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
• Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924), was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism.
• William Mitchell Ramsay, (1851–1939), archaeologist known for his expertise in Asia Minor
• R. A. Torrey (1856–1928), American evangelist, pastor and educator and one of the founders of modern evangelical fundamentalism
• Oswald Thompson Allis (1856–1930), co-founder of Westminster Theological Seminary
• Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), linguist committed to defending the reliability of the Hebrew Bible
• Charles Studd (1860–1931), missionary in China, India and the Congo, founder of WEC International
• Billy Sunday (1862–1935), American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition
• William Irvine (1863–1947), Scottish evangelist, founder of the Cooneyites and Two by Twos sects
• G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945), British evangelist and pastor of Westminster Chapel
• Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go-Preachers sects
• Harry Ironside (1876–1951), evangelist and pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago (1930–48).
• Karl Barth (1886–1968), leader of dialectical theology and author of Church Dogmatics
• Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960), Japanese evangelist and social reformer
• Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), Pentecostal preacher and founder of Foursquare Church
• Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929?), Indian missionary
• Clarence Bouma (1891–1962), first president of the Evangelical Theological Society
• William F. Albright (1891–1971), ceramics expert, founder of the biblical archaeology movement
• Henri Lanctin (1892-1986), French Protestant evangelist active in Canada
• Donald Barnhouse (1895–1960), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, founder of Eternity magazine
• D.P. Thomson (1896–1974), Scottish evangelist, exponent of visitation and lay evangelism, Warden of the St Ninian's Training Centre, Crieff
• Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963), preacher, author of The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy
• Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899–1981), reformed preacher at Westminster Chapel
• Frank E. Gaebelein (1899–1983), founding headmaster of The Stony Brook School, general editor of the Expositor's Bible Commentary
• John Sung (1901-1944), Chinese evangelist
• Frank Jenner (1903–1977), English Australian evangelist
• Bakht Singh (1903-2000), pioneer of the Indian Church movement
• Harold Ockenga (1905–1985), first president of the National Association of Evangelicals
• James Gordon Lindsay (1906–1973), revivalist preacher, author, and founder of Christ for the Nations Institute
• Carl Fredrik Wisløff (1908–2004), theologian, professor in church history, preacher in Norwegian Lutheran Mission
• William M. Branham (1909–1965), preacher and prophet, pacesetter and initiator of the Tent Revival Era of the 1940s and 1950s
• Merrill Unger (1909–1980), Old Testament professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, defender of biblical inerrancy
• F. F. Bruce (1910–1990), apologist, one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible
• A. A. Allen (1911–1970), was a minister with a Pentecostal ministry, associated with the "Voice of Healing" movement.
• Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), theologian, philosopher, founder of L'Abri, author of A Christian Manifesto
• Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003), founding editor of Christianity Today
• Robert Pierce (1914–1978), founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse
• Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), biblical scholar and translator who served on the board of the American Bible Society
• Gleason Archer (1916–2004), theologian, educator, and author
• T. L. Osborn (1923–2013), American Pentecostal evangelist, singer, author, teacher and designer.
• D. James Kennedy (1930–2007), founder of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Knox Theological Seminary
• Jerry Falwell (1933–2007), founder of Liberty University and the Moral Majority
• James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church.
• Greg Bahnsen (1948–1995), minister, educator, apologist, and a major figure in Christian Reconstructionism

Contemporary[edit]

Bible scholars, philosophers, and theologians[edit]

• Gregory Beale, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society
• Craig Blomberg, New Testament scholar at Denver Seminary, author of How Wide the Divide? An Evangelical and a Mormon in Conversation
• Greg Boyd, theologian, author and senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• William Lane Craig, professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, author of The Kalam Cosmological Argument
• Millard Erickson, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society
• Gordon D. Fee, theologian, succeeded F.F. Bruce as editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament, author of How to Read the Bible for All its Worth (co-authored with Douglas Stuart).
• Sinclair Ferguson, former editor of Banner of Truth Trust
• John Frame, theologian noted for his work in epistemology and presuppositional apologetics, author of The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God
• Norman Geisler, co-founder of Southern Evangelical Seminary, co-author of General Introduction to the Bible
• Graeme Goldsworthy, Australian Anglican theologian
• Paula Gooder, British theologian and Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral.^[1]
• Wayne Grudem, co-founder of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, author of Systematic Theology
• Gary Habermas, author, lecturer, and debater on the topic of the Resurrection of Jesus
• Kenneth Kitchen, Egyptologist, author of On the Reliability of the Old Testament
• Craig Keener, Bible scholar, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary
• Andreas Köstenberger, editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
• Richard Longenecker, professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College
• John Warwick Montgomery, writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics
• J. P. Moreland, professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology
• Nancey Murphy, professor of Christian philosophy, author, and ordained minister.
• Thomas C. Oden, father of Paleo-Orthodoxy; theologian associated with Drew University
• J. I. Packer, theological editor for the English Standard Version, author of Knowing God
• Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame, philosopher, Warrant and Christian Belief
• Frederick K. C. Price, founder and head pastor of Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC).
• Andrew Purves, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
• Bong Rin Ro, theologian and missiologist
• Moisés Silva, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society
• R. C. Sproul, Reformed theologian, founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries
• Elaine Storkey, British philosopher and theologian, author of numerous books on Christianity, feminism, gender, and women.^[2][3]
• John Stott, former Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place
• Miroslav Volf, professor at Yale Divinity School
• Stephen H. Webb, professor at Wabash College
• Ben Witherington III, Amos professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, professor emeritus of philosophical theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College (Yale); author, Lament for a Son
• Edwin M. Yamauchi, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society

Pastors, preachers and evangelists[edit]

• Leith Anderson, pastor of Wooddale Church, president of the National Association of Evangelicals
• Jim Bakker, former Assemblies of God minister, host of the PTL Club, convicted federal fraud felon, and current end-of-days evangelical preacher
• Alistair Begg, pastor of Parkside Church, radio preacher of Truth for Life
• Reinhard Bonnke, evangelist and organizer of gospel crusades throughout Africa
• Francis Chan, former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church
• Douglas Coe, leader of the Fellowship Foundation
• Mark Dever, pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, founder of 9Marks Ministries
• D. G. S. Dhinakaran, evangelical preacher, founder of Jesus Calls Ministries and the Karunya University
• Steven Furtick, founding pastor and evangelist at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC.
• Bill Gothard, founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles who was later removed from ministry due to sexual misconduct allegations
• Billy Graham, evangelist and spiritual counselor to multiple U.S. presidents
• Craig Groeschel, founder and pastor of Life.Church
• Nicky Gumbel, pioneer of the Alpha course and vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton in London
• John Hagee, founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas
• Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; former leader of the National Association of Evangelicals
• Jack W. Hayford, past president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
• Gordon Hugenberger, former pastor of Park Street Church
• Johnny Hunt, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of the First Baptist Church Woodstock, Georgia
• Bill Hybels, founder and former pastor of Willow Creek Community Church
• Harry R. Jackson Jr., senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland and Presiding Bishop of the International Communion of Evangelical Churches
• Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
• Phillip Jensen, Sydney Anglican
• Timothy J. Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (NY City); author of The Reason for God
• Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship and evangelist of Harvest Crusades
• Nicky Lee, creator of The Marriage Course, and associate vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton in London
• John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church (California), editor of the MacArthur Study Bible, founder and president of The Master's Seminary
• James S. MacDonald (born 1960), American pastor, non-denominational Bible teacher, and author
• C. J. Mahaney, leader of Sovereign Grace Ministries
• J. Vernon McGee, pastor, Bible teacher, theologian, and radio minister
• John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church; author of Desiring God
• David Platt, pastor and president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board
• Oral Roberts, founder of Oral Roberts University
• Philip Ryken, former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, current president of Wheaton College
• Mike Signorelli, founder and pastor of V1 Church and MVMNT Network of Churches.
• Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel fellowship of churches
• Andy Stanley, founder of North Point Community Church
• Charles Stanley, founder and president of In Touch Ministries
• Chuck Swindoll, pastor, founder and president of Insight for Living
• Gardner C. Taylor, known as "the dean of American preaching"
• Jack Van Impe, pastor and host of Jack Van Impe Presents
• Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, author of The Purpose Driven Life, The Purpose Driven Church
• Paul Washer, founder of HeartCry Missionary Society
• Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Wimber, pastor and founder of the Association of Vineyard Churches

Authors and speakers[edit]

• Jerry Bridges, speaker with The Navigators (organization), author of The Pursuit of Holiness
• Tony Campolo, pastor, sociologist, author, public speaker and leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement
• Shane Claiborne, writer, political activist and leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement
• Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship, author of Born Again
• James Dobson, psychologist, founder of Focus on the Family, author of Dare to Discipline
• Tony Evans, widely syndicated radio broadcaster
• Alex McFarland, apologist
• Louie Giglio, speaker and founder of Passion Conferences
• Charlie Kirk, American conservative political activist, radio talk show host, and founder of Turning Point USA
• Kent Hovind, dangers of evolution, scientific evidence for the Bible
• Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent who persecuted Christians in Russia, but converted and defected to Canada
• Tim Lahaye, dispensationalist novelist, author of Left Behind series
• Jeri Massi, author of the Christy Award-nominated Valkyries: Some Through the Fire
• Joyce Meyer, charismatic speaker, author of Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
• Chuck Missler, apologist, author, founder of Koinonia House Ministries
• Luis Palau, Argentinian evangelist
• Joni Eareckson Tada, author, radio host, and founder of Joni and Friends
• Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine, political activist and leader of the Red-Letter Christian movement
• David F. Wells, author of No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology, motivator for The Cambridge Declaration
• Philip Yancey, Christianity Today editor, columnist, author of The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace
• Ed Young, writer, speaker, artist, and the founding and senior Pastor of Fellowship Church

Educators and professors[edit]

• Darrell Bock, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society
• Don Carson, professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• Barry Corey, president of Biola University
• W. A. Criswell, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention
• Ligon Duncan, president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
• Robert Godfrey, president of Westminster Seminary California
• Kenneth E. Hagin, Charismatic preacher and founder of RHEMA Bible Training College (RBTC)
• John D. Hannah, author and professor at Dallas Theological Seminary
• Irving Hexham, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary
• D. Michael Lindsay, president of Taylor University
• R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky
• Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary
• Mark Noll, history professor at the University of Notre Dame
• Nicholas Perrin, president of Trinity International University
• Haddon Robinson, president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• Phil Ryken, president of Wheaton College
• Klyne Snodgrass, professor at North Park Theological Seminary, author of Between Two Truths
• Chuck Swindoll, former president of Dallas Theological Seminary
• Donald Sweeting, president of Colorado Christian University
• Kevin Vanhoozer, professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School