Our digital archives are a work in progress. Robert A. Schuller, who took over for his father for two years as the leader of the Crystal Cathedral, said during a leadership conference about pastoral succession this week that had his father simply let go of his responsibilities seven years ago, the church would still be in the hands of its own ministry. The Roman Catholic Diocese actually put more money into fixing it up73 million dollarsthan in buying it. He currently resides in Illinois, United States. His son was pushed out within two years, setting off a family feud when his sisters and their husbands took control of the church in 2008. Before considering method, we should note that Robert Schuller has grasped some important pieces of biblical truth. Premediation. Now Schuller is trying to discern God's response. [28] According to the Religion News Service, the founders were left with little to no assets; their home was fully mortgaged. [3], On June 15, 1950, Schuller married Arvella De Haan (19292014), a church organist, who became instrumental in developing the music department at the Crystal Cathedral and was the creator and producer of the Hour of Power for over 40 years. In some ways, the Cathedral hasnt changed hands at all. But Schuller largely tried to stay out of electoral politics, refusing to endorse candidates and declaring that had he been asked to preach at a Democratic convention, "I would have accepted that, too.". And he is infinitely clever in disguising his motiveseven from himself. 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But he removed him from the "Hour of Power" broadcasts in October after the church said the younger Schuller refused his father's requests to rotate the show's preaching duties with other ministers. Daredevil Knievel's testimony triggers mass baptisms at Crystal Cathedral. [6] As a six month old infant, Schuller wore the gown on the day of his baptism at a Reformed Church, in Newkirk, Iowa, where he was raised. The congregation, formally affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination, grew steadily on Dr. Schullers tireless mailing and doorbell-ringing campaigns. Robert Schuller, 88, Dies; Built an Empire Preaching Self-Belief, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/rev-robert-h-schuller-hour-of-power-evangelist-dies-at-88.html. The storm will pass. Documents filed in bankruptcy court and investigations by the Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register revealed that from 2008 to 2010 as church revenue plummeted from $54 million to $22 million the church failed to pay vendors and began laying off employees, even as it was continuing to give 23 church insiders and Schuller family members lavish salaries and benefits totaling millions of dollars. Schuller's message of "let's just make it happen," as he often urged, traces directly to the optimistic theology of Norman Vincent Peale, as laid out in his controversial book "The Power of Positive Thinking," which has sold more than 5 million copies since it was published in 1952. In a heralded announcement nearly three years ago, he named his son to succeed him as senior pastor. He does not grind the sinner into the dust, or demand that he renounce his own worth as a human being. To understand Robert Schuller, you must mot think of his television program as a church service planned for faithful worshipers scattered across the nation. Schuller had been diagnosed with cancer in 2013. Rev. He demanded that the rich young ruler give up all his possessions, because they had become an idol. ", That message punctuated by his catch phrase, "If you can dream it, you can do it" helped make Schuller one of the earlier shepherds of what's now called a "megachurch," Garden Grove Community Church and then the Crystal Cathedral. SANTA ANA (CBSLA) Rev. Robert Schuller is an evangelistfirst, last, and always. Bobby talks with Writer, Pastor, and Father Robert A Schuller Ground was broken September 10, 1958, for construction of the new church designed by international architect Richard Neutra. With the acquisition of ALN, ComStar leaders say they now have a vehicle to build out a premiere family-friendly network that will amalgamate television and Internet mediums and fill a void for safe, family programming targeting viewers of all ages. Connection is only a click away. Dr. Schullers grandson Bobby recently became the lead pastor of both Hour of Power and the successor to Dr. Schullers original church, now called Shepherds Grove. Perhaps the greatest sign of its popularity came in 1989, when the authorities in Moscow invited Dr. Schuller to speak in the Soviet Unions first religious telecast. Steve Harris as Dr. Schuller tells hi. Traditionally, as Schuller understands it, the church sees every unbeliever as a condemned sinner, utterly worthless, who must be threatened with the eternal punishment he so richly deserves. [23] They filed for bankruptcy. [21] After a year as interim senior pastor, Sheila Schuller Coleman was elevated to senior pastor in July 2010. [1] Schuller began broadcasting the program from the Neutra Sanctuary, with the encouragement of longtime friend Billy Graham after Schuller visited him in 1969. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Andrew C. Adams, the Director of Task Force KleptoCapture, Ivan J. Arvelo, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations ("HSI"), and Jeffrey B. Veltri, Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI .