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Top 50 most influential Christians…
Quite scary and a sad testimony to American Christianity when Joel Osteen places first in a “most influential Christian” list.
Due to the paradox of Christianity – the last being first – not many wise, not may strong etc.. it is quite likely that the most authentic, and possibly therefore the most truly influential Christians are largely unknown. In history I think of the people represented by Menno Simons – many tortured or killed by the two “main-stream Christian” churches of the day (early 1500’s) – but they embraced all of the values of Christ – and these values were expressed much like Ghandi – their core value was servanthood – they died in a posture of peaceful, non-resistance.
Dave… so true! I doubt that we’ll even recognize the most “influential” believers in heaven!
This is the first time I have seen this list. It’s very sad that a “pastor” (loose term) that doesn’t want to use the word sin or sinners in his messages is considered the most influential “Christian”. I think if someone is actually preaching from the Bible it would have to come up! I only recognized a handful of the people on the list, but I’m not really up to speed with ‘famous’ Christians. I feel that the most influential Christians probably don’t even know the impact that they have nor do they want to be on some “top 50”… Read more »
i just now saw this post. how was beth just #44?? and billy graham was second to joel?!?!? somehow that seems blasphemous!