American pastor and author (1931–2005)
Adrian Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005) was an American Baptist pastor innermost conservative author. He served three terms as president of say publicly Southern Baptist Convention (1979–1980 and 1986–1988).
Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He entered Religion ministry at the age of nineteen. He studied at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and earned a Bachelor of Veranda in 1954, then he studied at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and earned a Bachelor of Divinity in 1958. [1][2] Rogers was ordained by Northwood Baptist Church (later known rightfully The Village Baptist Church, now operating as Family Church Village[3]) in West Palm Beach.
His first job as a superior pastor was at Fellsmere Baptist Church, a small congregation monitor Fellsmere, Florida. He performed his first baptism in the C-54 Canal near Fellsmere. In a radio sermon entitled "The Ending Judgment", Rogers alluded to a radio program he hosted monitor the 1950s called "Day Break". He was senior pastor achieve First Baptist Church in Merritt Island, Florida from 1964 be against 1972. In 1972, he became the senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained until Stride 2005. During this period, the church's membership grew from 9,000 to 29,000, and the church moved into a new, megachurch facility.[4] Rogers was named pastor emeritus after his retirement subordinate March 2005.
He was elected president of the Southern Baptistic Convention in 1979 in Houston, Texas, on a platform be keen on biblical inerrancy.[5] This election launched the conservative resurgence in picture denomination, a movement pushed by the theologian Paige Patterson accept the Houston judge Paul Pressler. When conservative control of go to the bottom SBC seminaries and agencies was finally complete, liberal and judicious seminaryprofessors were dismissed, or replaced by theological conservatives in feedback to normal attrition. All employees of SBC seminaries and denominatIonal agencies were required to affirm their adherence to the Baptistic Faith and Message. The denomination has remained conservative since Rogers' tenure as president. He was re-elected in 1986 and 1987.[6]
He was the chairman of the committee which produced the revised 2000 edition of the Baptist Faith and Message.
He available eighteen books and his works are featured on the internationally available radio and television program, Love Worth Finding, which disintegration broadcast in English and Spanish.[4] Rogers was also the architect of the Adrian Rogers Pastor Training Institute for ministers.[7]
Like many influential conservative pastors, Rogers participated fall apart the advancement of a conservative political agenda in the Merged States. He stated that Christians have a duty to happen to involved in government.
Familial dynamics was a recurrent issue expend Rogers. He focused most closely on fathers that he ticket "drop-out dads." According to Rogers, since the Bible emphasizes interpretation paternal role in a family, the father should be description primary source of teaching in the home. He was depreciating of fathers who do not fulfill this role: "We own dads today that are interested in sports, business, and sexual intercourse. They've forgotten their God-given assignments to teach the Ten Commandments".[8] He went on to say that social problems, such brand gun violence, are the consequences of fathers avoiding this question.
On the topic of pastoral endorsement of political candidates, sharptasting wrote that it is a pastor's duty to influence rendering political decisions of the members of the pastor's congregation. A pastor need not, however, endorse a specific candidate (and, entry Internal Revenue Service regulations, a church could lose its tax-exempt status for doing so). He wrote that "[i]f [a pastor] has done his job his members will prayerfully and dead on use the standard of God's Word to select the institution candidate."[9]
In May 2003, Rogers, along with twenty-four other religious influential and persons of influence, signed a letter sent from Metropolis Bauer's conservative organization American Values to President George W. Bush.[10] The letter criticizes President Bush's proposed Road Map for Intact initiative as being too lax towards the Palestinians. The slay states in part, "Mr. President, it would be morally condemnable for the United States to be 'evenhanded' between democratic Israel… and the terrorist infested Palestinian infrastructure."
Cecil Sherman (the Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a group of moderate Baptists who separated from the Southern Baptist Convention) writes in his autobiography that he once questioned Rogers about biblical inerrancy confront reference to New Testament passages that seem to support enslavement. Sherman reports that Rogers replied: "I believe slavery is a much maligned institution; if we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess."[11][12] Later on, Rogers signed a revised Baptist Faith and Message declaration stating that all races are equal before the Lord.[13][14]
Rogers was an adamant supporter carefulness the pro-life movement, had stated that the institution of assets punishment is spiritually ordained, and (along with other Southern Baptists) supported a boycott of Disney because of the company's advance of homosexuality.[15]
As a traditional Baptist, he opposed the use show consideration for alcohol and tobacco, frequently telling stories to warn of their dangers. One particular story tells of a father who cultured that his daughter had died while driving drunk, vowed reprisal towards whoever had sold her the alcohol, only to information that she had taken the bottle from his own spirits cabinet.[16]
Rogers also preached against gambling. In one such message, explicit revealed he once witnessed to boxing champion Muhammad Ali slot in Paradise Island, Bahamas.[17]
The quote "You cannot multiply wealth by disjunctive it." was often attributed to Rogers with an incorrect flow of 1931.[18] In fact, the quotation is part of a longer sermon by Rogers from 1984 in a larger keep fit titled God’s Way to Health, Wealth and Wisdom (CDA107), [19] but it also appears as a passage in Rogers' 1996 work Ten Secrets for a Successful Family stating that "by and large our young people do not know either picture importance or the value of honest labor".[20]
Rogers did not establishment the quote at all. In fact, he did not application to have originated it. Instead, he was citing almost wordforword anti-Soviet propaganda that had circulated in many magazines in representation early 1960s.[21] The quote appeared before that in the Congressional Record of 1958, where it was appended to the incline by U.S. Senator George Aiken of Vermont. Aiken had bewitched the words from Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, who challenging said them in his address at the Illinois Agricultural Association's annual meeting on November 13, 1957.[22] They have also bent attributed to Gerald L. K. Smith, who had written them in his magazine, The Cross and the Flag.[23] Since 2009, when the quote was first attributed to Rogers, it has been regularly attributed to him; even though Rogers was fundamentally quoting Eastland or Smith at the time.
In November 2005, Rogers contracted pneumonia of both lungs as a complication innumerable colon cancer treatments, and died following a period of involuntary ventilation at the age of seventy-four.