KENNETH HAGIN IS LOVINGLY called the "Father" of the Faith Movement. People who know him personally even call him "Dad Hagin". Hagin's influence has been nothing short of phenomenal. Virtually every major Faith teacher today has been impacted by Hagin in some significant manner. Hagin's disciples include such men as Kenneth Copeland, Charles Capps, and Frederick K.C. Price. Hagin's syndicated radio show is currently carried by some 249 radio stations, and his Rhema Bible Training Center continues to produce graduates at a hefty rate. In 1992 alone, Hagin's Word of Faith magazine recorded 777 enthusiastic Rhema graduates, making a total of more than 12,000 graduates since the school opened in 1974. Hagin's Word of Faith magazine now reaches close to 400,000 homes, and as of 1992 the ministry had sold more than 47 million copies of the various books and publications, with translations of many into 26 foreign languages.
Hagin's popularity can be attributed, at least in part, to his claim to be an authority on spiritual matters. In turn, Hagin's "authority" appears to be derived largely from his alleged personal contacts with Jesus via visions. During one of these many visits, chronicled in I Believe in Visions, Jesus takes Hagin on a whirlwind tour of heaven and hell. Hagin devotes page after page to the details of his apocalyptic journeys to the place of the "damned". Not only does Hagin boast about alleged visits to heaven and hell, but in his writings he recounts numerous out-of-the-body experiences in vivid detail. Hagin has made the claim that God himself told him that if individuals, churches and pastors do not accept his message they may very well pay the ultimate price. He then goes on to recount the story of a pastor falling dead in the pulpit because he did not accept the message that God gave to Hagin for this man.
But, just because a man claims that he is from God and claims that "Jesus" makes personal visits to give him "revelations".......doesn't mean its true. Would it surprise you to know that Hagin's "Jesus" is not the Jesus of the Scriptures? Would it surprise you to know that Hagin's Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross but paid for them as he suffered in hell, a demonic creature with the sin nature of Satan? Well, if you don't believe it, check out the next page. And remember.......
