![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoy it as much as getting saved in the first place!”įor three hours-until we landed-Copeland talked and I probed, asking about faith, the Word of God, about people whose faith isn’t answered, and about the future of his ministry. “The greatest joy in my life,” Copeland told me as we settled down to talk, “is getting my Bible, going where there are people and ministering the Word of God. His wife, Gloria, is popular as a speaker and writer in her own right.) He’s on 604 radio stations in the United States and Canada, and he has a mailing list of over a quarter of a million names. This year an estimated 80,000 will attend Victory Seminars in 22 cities. His six records, usually categorized as “middle-of-the-road” include I’ll Fly Away, The Word, I Have Returned, Jesus Country, Bread Upon the Water, and the newest- I’m a Believer. (I found out later his ministry employs 63 full time he’s written six books, including The Laws of Prosperity, The Force of Righteousness, The Trouble Maker, The Force of Faith, Our Covenant With God, and The Decision Is Yours. We never got around to the normal reportorial questions about the size of his ministry, the number of his books and records he’s released, his “Victory Seminars,” the number of radio stations he’s on, or talk about his lovely wife, Gloria. ![]() It was the most unusual interview of my life. After more than a year of letters and phone calls, it was finally arranged that I could talk to him en route to one of his two-day, three-night Victory Seminars. I had read Copeland’s books, heard his radio program, listened to his tapes. He is a powerful pulpiteer who is easily as influential in the charismatic renewal as his former mentor, Kenneth Hagin, under whose ministry Copeland developed much of his understanding of faith. Today, he has one of the most dynamic charismatic ministries in America. Seventeen years ago, Copeland was unsaved and unemployed. But his followers-and they are many-admire him most as a man of faith, a man of God. Kenneth Copeland, 42, is an evangelist, writer, radio preacher, singer. ![]()
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