Most people only know John as host and moderator of the ministry television show. But, I want to share with you the “real” John Ankerberg…the evangelist and preacher.
Sunday night, July 31, John spoke at Shadow Mountain Community Church (Pastor Dr. David Jeremiah) as part of their Summer Bible Conference. The people were wonderful and enjoyed hearing John’s heart.
You see John got into apologetics (giving an answer for your faith) by holding evangelistic meetings while on staff with Youth For Christ in Chicago. He spoke on college campuses to every type of group imaginable. He always spoke on salvation and promised the group that if they would listen to him first he would stay as long as they wanted to answer their questions. Keep in mind most of these meetings didn’t even start until late in the evening when the students returned for the night. When John was given a question that stumped him he simply told them “I don’t know the answer to that but will be back tomorrow night with the answer. “ He then nailed his professors at seminary for the answers. (By the way, many of those professors are still guests on The John Ankerberg Show today.) John’s philosophy has always been that you don’t have to “check your brains at the door” to be a Christian.
Later on John held evangelistic crusades in major cities of Africa, Asia, South America and the Islands of the Caribbean.
I’ve travelled with John for many years and had the privilege of seeing him share his faith with the taxi driver, the bellman, the waitress, the maid. He does this as easily as breathing. It just comes natural for him.
So, I am thankful for those who know this part of John. By the way, there are videos of John speaking at Promise Keepers and a few other places available at our website. I hope you will take the time to get to know this side of John, too. He really is a good preacher.
Alan
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I have just finished reading a little booklet by Mr. Ankerburg called “The Facts on the Masonic Lodge.” Can you tell me whether the Oddfellows organization is in the tradition of the Masons and holds the same heretical beliefs (i.e., a denial of the deity and sacrificial atonement of Jesus, the belief that all humans are “brothers and sisters” under a universal God in which all religiions are “essentially the same”)?
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i just recently watched some of john’s videos on youtube… first of all.. if you’re going to criticize science make sure you have some of your facts straight… no modern scientist is trying to say that life on earth came from some other planet or universe among the multi-verse (from m-theory).. and no scientist is saying that roughly 14 billion years was not enough time for evolution to occur on earth.. they are simply stipulating that there are over 500 planets detected thus far with earth like atmospheres… I.E. we may be able to breathe on them… and some of these may have water which means that other means of intelligent life are entirely possible in other galaxies in OUR universe…. pretty much everything that I saw on the show that was said about m-theory was a joke… do some real research and get a real physicist on the show that is from any form of theology but yours and see what they say.. i mean no injustice to anyone but this program truly offended me and made me feel as though it was trying to pass off lies with manipulation of language. . . .
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The story of the Fall of Man is directly tied to the story of Jesus cursing the Fig Tree. I would suggest that Christ was the Lord-God-Walking in the Garden of Eden, so Jesus cursed the fig tree because he was having a flashback to the day when he saw His fig tree (the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) denuded of figs when He had given Adam and Eve all of the other fig trees in the Garden of Eden from which to pluck and eat the fruit thereof. The fact that they did not respect God’s private property was the reason why the entire universe fell under the curse. Socialism is an ideology that only a thuggee and mugger could love — what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine, so hand it over! This is the fallacy of communism, fascism, and every other ism that preys upon onther people’s wealth — Other Peoples’ Money = OPM, which spelled TAX. The confiscated goods of others is called pelf, rhymes with self, and is the expression of supreme greed and selfish- ness. The Bible teaches that the fall of man was his temptation to be needlessly greedy and selfish. I would like you to do an in-depth Bible study on this theme and present your findings. It would be a very, very interesting Bible study.
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The Kingdom of GOD is INSIDE Life. Within all Life are immeasiurable Kingdoms of cellular encased sub-micro Universes wherein all the children of GOD dwell and live forever or until the Life-form they harbor within does cease in the digestion rituals and is dead. Science has shown to us that incelled within every cellular structure are super small machines that must have operators inside such machines. The Kingdoms of GOD are branches upon the Earth’s Geneology Tree of Life.
Rick
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Sir
I am a city of joy , where Mother Teresa belongs to ( Calcutta – India ) I just wants to thanks him for spreading the good news of bible , i know lord JESUS is always with him but still i would like ask JESUS to help him ( John ) further till he archive your target .
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