100 Top Pemimpin Kristen Amerika
Newsmax's Top 100 Christian Leaders in America
Newsmax membuat daftar the top 100 Christian leaders di
America
yang membuat dampak nyata dalan kehidupan modern pada 2015.
Kekristenan menghadapi tantangan dunia dari transmisi
instan informasi saat ini dan merk baru dosa yang telah dikenal beberapa abad
yang lalu, bukan juga yang keluar yang dikenal selama revolusi seksual sosial
pada tahun 60an. Bukan semua nama yang didaftarkan adalah pejabat publik, bukan
semua secara fisik pejabat gereja, pemimpin masyarakat, dengan cara apapun.
Awal abad ke 21 adalah waktu yang melimpah produksi
video massa Kristen mati sahid di tangan orang-orang fanatik yang
mengatasnamakan Islam, suatu jenis teknologi tinggi kembali ke pertengahan
perang antara dua iman. Dalam zaman komputer, jutaan saksi yang menghabiskaan
waktunya untuk itu.
Bintang hiburan dan olah raga biasanya tidak
dipertimbangkan sebagai pemimpin agama, tetapi sekarang pengaruh mereka sering
melebihi dari para pastor atau dibandingkan dengan penginjil televisi. Produser
Reality TV, Mark
Burnett dan Roma Downey
telah mendorong kembali industri hiburan Kristen
dengan serial hitnya “The Bible” dan "A.D. The Bible Continues."
Apa yang dilakukan stand-up comedians dalam daftar Kris ten yang
berkuasa? Tidak seperti beberapa pengkhotbah, mereka tidak membiarkan hadirin
mereka tidur atau mengirim mereka keluar dengan lebih-kudus-daripada-sikap
kamu.
Walaupun Web mungkin mengatur sekarang, buku-buku –
yang dibeli di Barnes & Noble atau diunduh ke
dalam Kindle, juga lebih berpengaruh dari sebelumnya. Jadi, pengarang seperti Mark dan Grace Driscoll ,
yang menemukan pasangan dalam masalah perkawinan yang mungkin tidak pernah
memasuki penginilan Kristen ,
dimasukkan dalam daftar, dimana para Pelayan telah berada sebelumnya.
Gagasan pemimpin yang mendorong Kekristenan memberi
pengaruh pada politik Amerika juga dimasukkan daftar, seperti pejabat Departemen K e h a k i m a n
Rea gen , Al a n
S e a rs .
Beberapa pengkhotbah nasional paling sibuk, seperti, Kirbyjon
C a l dwell ,
yang tumbuh jemaatnya Afrika-Amerika dari pengisian antar dinding suatu ruang
keluarga hingga suatu kerumunan besar dapat membanjiri suatu stadium menengah.
Penginjil kota k sabun
sudah usang. Mengakui
K r i s t u s
dan mel akukan dosa terhadapNya, keduanya
dilakukan sambil duduk di depan layar komputer sekarang. Sebagai akibatnya,
dunia baru mendorong Pemimpin
K r i s t e n
dari satu perjalanan yang tidak diharapkan dari kehidupan. Lain zaman, lain tanta ngannya. Pemimpin K r i s t e n
yang kaku, dogmatis, dianggap han ya omong kosong. Dibutuhkan Pemimpin Kristen
yang dapat memberi solusi nyata dalam kehidupan. Saat ini di sini, tidak perlu
menunggu sampai di sorga yang akan datang.
Inilah daftar 100 Pemimpin
Kris ten di
Ame r i k a versi Newsmax':
1.Franklin Graham , Kepala Samaritan’s Purse.
2.Joel Osteen , televangelist, pastor of Lakewood Church
di Houston , dan best-selling author.
3. Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, creators of the successful television series "The Bible," and its spinoff, "A.D. The Bible Continues."
4.Cardinal Donald Wuerl ,
archbishop of Washington .
5.Billy Graham , legendary evangelist.
6.Rick Warren , founder and senior pastor of Saddleback evangelical
megachurch in Lake Forest , California .
7.Mike Huckabee , former governor of Arkansas , Southern Baptist minister, and
potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate.
8.Jerry Falwell ,
Jr. , president of Liberty
University in Lynchburg , Virginia ,
the world's largest evangelical Christian university.
9.Joyce Meyer , founder of Joyce Meyer
Ministries , host of
"Enjoying Everyday Life" TV and radio show, bestselling author of
more than 100 books.
10.Pat Robertson , chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
11.Ronnie Floyd , president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
12. Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and former president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
13.Thomas Spencer Monson , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
14. The Rev. T.D. Jakes, apostle/bishop of the Dallas-based nondenominational megachurch The Potter’s House, whose impassioned sermons are broadcast internationally; founder of the “Woman Thou Art Loosed” movement; host of the “Megafest” revival that draws more than 100,000 people annually.
15.Cardinal Timothy Dolan ,
archbishop of New York .
16.John Hagee , founder of the Cornerstone megachurch in San Antonio , CEO
of Global Evangelism Television and John Hagee Ministries, and founder of
Christian-Zionist group Christians United for Israel .
17.Edward Atsinger
III , CEO of
Salem Media Group.
18. Victoria Osteen, televangelist and co-pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston and best-selling author of “Love Your Life” and various other children's books.
19.Tim LaHaye , co-author of the best-selling “Left Behind” novels.
20. Cardinal Raymond Burke, former chief of Vatican Supreme Court and most prominent opponent of Pope Francis' liberalization of Catholic moral teachings.
21. Father Jonathan Morris, Fox News contributor, author, and Catholic priest; special assistant to Cardinal Timothy Dolan for media and communications; director of SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel, and theological adviser to Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ."
22. David Lane , social-conservative activist and staunch opponent of
gay marriage, who regularly steps into the political realm to promote
Judeo-Christian values.
23.Mary Ann
Glendon , a bioethics scholar and professor at Harvard Law School and a former U.S.
ambassador to the Vatican .
24.Bill Donohue , president of the Catholic League for Religious and
Civil Rights.
25.Katharine Jefferts Schori , presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States .
26.David Green , CEO of
Hobby Lobby.
27.Archbishop Demetrios , head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
and Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans .
28.Jim Winkler , president of the National Council of Churches.
29. Floyd Flake, pastor of Greater AllenAME
Cathedral in Jamaica, New York, for nearly 30 years, responsible for growing
its congregation to more than 18,000; former Democratic congressman.
30.Robert George , Princeton
University professor of
jurisprudence described by The New York Times as “this country’s most
influential conservative Christian thinker”; drafter of the social-conservative
Manhattan Declaration manifesto.
31.Rick Santorum , former U.S. senator, potential 2016 GOP
presidential candidate, and Catholic lay leader.
32.Mary Ann
Swenson , bishop of the United Methodist
Church and chairwoman of
the Board Development Committee of the National Council of Churches.
33.Alan Sears , president and chief attorney of the Alliance
Defending Freedom.
34.Reginald Jackson , bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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12. Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and former president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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18. Victoria Osteen, televangelist and co-pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston and best-selling author of “Love Your Life” and various other children's books.
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20. Cardinal Raymond Burke, former chief of Vatican Supreme Court and most prominent opponent of Pope Francis' liberalization of Catholic moral teachings.
21. Father Jonathan Morris, Fox News contributor, author, and Catholic priest; special assistant to Cardinal Timothy Dolan for media and communications; director of SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel, and theological adviser to Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ."
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35. Charles Chaput , archbishop of Philadelphia .
36.Mark Driscoll , founder of Mars
Hill Church
in Seattle
and co-author with wife Grace of the
bestselling book “Real Marriage.”
37.Tim Tebow , ESPN commentator and NFL quarterback recently picked
up by the Philadelphia Eagles.
38.George O. Wood , chairman of Assemblies of God, the world's largest
Pentecostal denomination.
39.Michael Sweet , Christian rocker, lead singer of Stryper and Boston .
40.Carl Anderson , Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus .
41.Eric Metaxas , speaker and author of the acclaimed biographies
"Amazing Grace: William
Wilberforce and the Heroic
Campaign to End Slavery" and "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet,
Spy."
42. Vashti Murphy McKenzie, first-ever female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, first woman pastor ofPayne
Memorial AME Church
in Baltimore .
43.Tony Perkins , president of Family Research Council.
44.Charles Stanley , senior pastor at First
Baptist Church
in Atlanta ,
founder of In Touch Ministries, and former president of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
45.James Towey , president of Ave Maria University in Florida and George W. Bush 's
White House director of faith-based initiatives.
46. Creflo Dollar, televangelist, pastor, and preacher of prosperity theology; founder of World Changers Church International and Creflo Dollar Ministries.
47. Foley Beach, presiding archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, conservative breakaway from the Episcopal Church.
48.Marjorie Dannenfelser , founder and president of the Susan B. Anthony List
PAC.
49.Ted Baehr , founder and publisher of the family-friendly
Movieguide, who also serves as chairman of the Christian Film & Television
Commission ministry. His annual gala awards ceremony has become a vehicle for
promoting Christian values in Hollywood .
50.Chuck Norris , martial artist and actor, evangelical author.
51.Dan T.
Cathy , CEO of
Chick-fil-A.
52.Fred Luter , senior minister of the Franklin
Avenue Baptist
Church in New Orleans , and first-ever black president
of the Southern Baptist Convention.
53. Heath Rada, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church,U.S.A. ,
and former American Red Cross executive.
54. Kirk Cameron, actor who starred on "Growing Pains" and filmmaker.
55. Calvin O. Butts, pastor ofAbyssinian
Baptist Church
in Harlem , New York ,
president of State University of New York at Old Westbury in Long
Island , and founder and chairman of the Abyssinian Development
Corporation.
56. ArchbishopAugustine Di Noia , Bronx-born adjunct secretary of the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican and Dominican-order member
of the powerful Roman
Curia .
57.Michael W. McConnell , former federal judge and possible future Supreme
Court nominee under a Republican president; co-editor of “Christian
Perspectives on Legal Thought."
58. Kirbyjon Caldwell, served as pastor ofWindsor
Village United
Methodist Church
in Houston ,
the largest UM congregation in the country, for nearly three decades.
59.Bubba Watson , champion golfer and philanthropist.
60.Rob Renfroe , pastor of The Woodlands United Methodist Church in Houston .
61.Tom Monaghan , founder of Domino's Pizza, founder Ave Maria
University, and leading Catholic philanthropist.
62.Carrie Underwood , country music artist.
63.Samuel Rodriguez , president of the National Hispanic Christian
Leadership Conference.
64. Blase Cupich, archbishop ofChicago .
65.Gary Bauer , president of American Values, 2000 Republican
presidential candidate, and Reagan administration
domestic policy adviser.
66. Haddon Robinson, influential professor of homiletics and teacher on “Discover the Word” radio program who long served on the faculty of the Dallas Theological Seminary; former interim president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.
67.Pat Boone , pop singer, actor, TV personality, author, and
conservative activist.
68. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, first black head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
69. Bryan Chapell, senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois, and moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
70.Bill McCartney , College Football Hall of Fame coach and founder of
Promise Keepers.
71.A.R. Bernard , founder and CEO
of Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn ,
New York .
72.Charles Blake , presiding bishop of the Church of God
in Christ denomination.
73.Lon Solomon , senior pastor at McLean Bible
Church , an influential
megachurch with multiple Washington, D.C.-area locations; chairman of the
executive committee of the board of Jews for Jesus .
74.Mark Schoenwald , CEO of
HarperCollins Christian
Publishing .
75.Joe Gibbs , retired Washington Redskins head coach who
won three Super Bowls, and champion NASCAR team owner.
76.Andre Butler , senior pastor of Word of Faith International
Christian Center based in Southfield , Michigan , with satellite churches in Pakistan and Africa .
77.Raymond Arroyo , TV host of "The World Over" on Eternal
World Television Network.
78.Cynthia L. Hale , senior pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur , Georgia .
79.Ralph Winter , leading Hollywood
producer, in-demand Christian speaker.
80.William J. Murray , chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition and son
of murdered atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
81.William P. Young , best-selling author of “The Shack."
82.John F.
MacArthur , pastor of Grace
Community Church
in Los Angeles ; influential preacher, radio
host, and prolific author; president of the Master's College in Newhall , California .
83.Russell Hittinger , professor
of Catholic Studies at the University
of Tulsa .
84.Brian Welch , Christian metal rocker.
85.David Murrow , founder of Church for Men, TV producer, and author.
86. Chuck Swindoll, senior pastor at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas; longtime radio preacher on thousands of stations whose sermons are translated into more than a dozen languages and broadcast internationally.
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42. Vashti Murphy McKenzie, first-ever female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, first woman pastor of
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46. Creflo Dollar, televangelist, pastor, and preacher of prosperity theology; founder of World Changers Church International and Creflo Dollar Ministries.
47. Foley Beach, presiding archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, conservative breakaway from the Episcopal Church.
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53. Heath Rada, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church,
54. Kirk Cameron, actor who starred on "Growing Pains" and filmmaker.
55. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of
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58. Kirbyjon Caldwell, served as pastor of
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64. Blase Cupich, archbishop of
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66. Haddon Robinson, influential professor of homiletics and teacher on “Discover the Word” radio program who long served on the faculty of the Dallas Theological Seminary; former interim president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.
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68. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, first black head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
69. Bryan Chapell, senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois, and moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
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86. Chuck Swindoll, senior pastor at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas; longtime radio preacher on thousands of stations whose sermons are translated into more than a dozen languages and broadcast internationally.
87. Sarah Palin , former Alaska
governor, vice-presidential candidate, and TV commentator.
88.Derek Fisher , retired record-setting NBA point guard and current
New York Knicks head coach.
89.Gary Chapman , marriage counselor and author of “The 5 Love
Languages” series.
90.Andy Andrews , self-help expert and author of the best-selling book
“The Traveler's Gift.”
91.Gavin MacLeod , actor who played Murray
on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat."
92. Nadia Bolz-Weber, founder and pastor of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, as well as a best-selling author.
93.Austin Ruse , president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institute.
94.Renita Weems , AME Church
minister and author.
95.Jake Peavy , San Francisco Giants World Series-winning pitcher.
96.Paul LaLonde , co-founder of Cloud Ten Pictures.
97.Brad Stine , stand-up comedian.
98. Michael Jr., stand-up comedian who has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and other national talk shows.
99.John Eldredge , counselor and best-selling author of “Wild at
Heart."
100.Michael Waltrip , champion
NASCAR driver, Fox TV racing commentator, and bestselling author.
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92. Nadia Bolz-Weber, founder and pastor of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, as well as a best-selling author.
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98. Michael Jr., stand-up comedian who has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and other national talk shows.
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