Rev. Robert H. Schuller, who built Crystal Cathedral, dies at 88

Schuller was a popular TV personality, but his ministry was came crashing down because it had no biblical foundation. He wavered on the definition of sin. His “gospel” was based upon helping the sinner to have good “self-esteem.” His practical theology rested upon the Norman Vincent Peale concept of positive thinking, or what Schuller liked to call “possibility thinking.” He stooped so beneath the message of the Bible that he even brought in a “channeled” version of Christianity called “A Course in Miracles,” which strayed far from the teaching of Jesus Christ, to whom he referred as “the greatest Example of positive self-esteem.” His Jesus was simply a good example for us to aspire to become. Sadly, a man who was given such a big platform for speaking the truth at last found himself without even a pulpit. I am afraid he left behind a vast number of delude people.

I remember the way he would re-write traditional hymnody to match his apostasy. The most memorable was:

Rise up, O Church of God,

Rise up o’er all the earth.

Let men and women everywhere

Proclaim their own self worth.