Creflo Dollar

Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr. (born on January 15, 1962, College Park, Georgia), is a televangelist, Word of Faith teacher, pastor, and the founder of the non-denominational Christian World Changers Ministries based in College Park, Georgia, which is the parent organization for World Changers Church International, International Covenant Ministries, Creflo Dollar Ministries, and Arrow Records.^{[citation needed]} Each of these enterprises is overseen by Dollar and his wife, Taffi Dollar.

Dollar received a bachelor’s degree in education, a master’s degree in counseling, and a doctorate^{[citation needed]} in counseling from the University of West Georgia. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Oral Roberts University in 1998.

Dollar started his ministry in 1986 with eight people and, as of 2005, had a congregation of nearly 25,000^{[citation needed]}, with regular services held at the church's 8,500-seat "World Dome."

His Changing Your World television program is seen both in the United States and internationally^{[citation needed]}. In 2004, a satellite church was started in New York. It has a membership of about 6,000.^{[citation needed]} The church holds conventions around the world.

He is the publisher of CHANGE magazine, a quarterly international publication with nearly 100,000 subscribers^{[citation needed]}, and The Max, a bimonthly resource newsletter for ministers and ministry leaders.

A popular conference speaker and best-selling author^{[citation needed]}, Dollar is known for espousing his own method for approaching to the Bible. Dollar and his wife have five children and live in Fayetteville, Georgia .^[1]

Controversy

Dr. Dollar is known for his controversial message regarding "Prosperity Christianity", which (along with his non-religious investments^[2]) has netted him two Rolls-Royces, three private jets, a million-dollar home in Fayetteville, and a $2.5 million apartment in Manhattan.^[3] Dollar's message has been renounced^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} by other Baptist Christians, partly for his message that religious faithfulness will be rewarded by material wealth^[8], and partly for his assertion that "Jesus didn't come as God, he came as a man, and he did not come perfect...he grew into his perfection" with his December 2002 message "Jesus' Growth into Sonship"^[9]. Dollar's enumeration of "Believer's Rights"^[10] also states that all true believers of God have the same miraculous abilities as Jesus himself, including the power to overcome infertility and to raise the dead.

References

1. ^ http://www.creflodollarministries.org/about/bio_t.html
2. ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/north/chi-dollaraug17,1,6775732.story
3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/nyregion/15prosperity.html?ex=1294981200&en=9d7efd8b8715771f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
4. ^ http://blackapologist.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/exposing-the-heresy-of-creflo-cashflo-dollar-jesus-became-god/
5. ^ http://www.letusreason.org/Poptea16.htm
6. ^ http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/word-faith.html#cdollar
7. ^ http://www.forgottenword.org/dollar.html
8. ^ http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070828/29089_Controversial_Author_Sues_Streaming_Faith_for_Dropping_Show.htm
9. ^ http://interactive.creflodollarministries.org/broadcasts/archives2002_t.asp?site=CDM
10. ^ http://interactive.creflodollarministries.org/bible/TLP_t.asp?site=CDM

External links

• Official Biography
• Creflo Dollar Ministries homepage
• World Changers Church International homepage
• World Changers Church New York homepage
• Creflo Dollar Sermons Delivered at Kenneth Copeland Believers Conventions
• Creflo Dollar Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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