This guy is absolutely wild. How did he get like he was from where he started in a Christian home. Here comes some Wikipedia paragraphs.
Kenneth Max Copeland was born on December 6, 1936,[1] and raised in West Texas, near a United States Army Air Forces airfield. This inspired him to become a pilot.[1][2]
Copeland was a recording artist on the Imperial Records label during the 1950s, recording a number of singles including “Pledge of Love”, which charted in the Billboard Top 40 on April 20, 1957, staying on the charts for 15 weeks and peaking at No. 17.[3]
In the fall of 1967, he enrolled in Oral Roberts University, where he soon became pilot and chauffeur to Oral Roberts.[4]
n 1967, after attending Kenneth E. Hagin‘s Pastor Seminars, Copeland and his wife Gloria founded Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM) in Fort Worth, Texas.[5] The ministry’s motto is “Jesus is Lord“.[6] Kenneth Copeland Ministries has six international offices in Canada, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Ukraine.[7] He preaches prosperity theology and is part of the Word of Faith movement, which teaches that financial blessing and physical well-being are the will of God for believers, and that material and financial success are a sign of divine favor.[8] This may be unlocked through giving to ministry, and Copeland has written that parishioners will get a “hundredfold” return on their investment through “giving to God” by offering to his ministry.[9]
Throughout his career, Copeland has supported and partnered with other ministers with similar views, including Heidi Baker, Jerry Savelle, Todd White, and Oral Roberts. In 1986 Copeland supported and prayed over Reinhard Bonnke during Bonnke’s Fresh Fire Conference.[10] Daniel Kolenda, who was the successor to Reinhard Bonnke, said that Kenneth Copeland told Bonnke that one-day Bonnke would preach to a million people on one day.[11]
Kenneth Copeland Ministries is located in Fort Worth, Texas, on a 33-acre (13 ha) property that was once Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake), a United States Marine Corps air base, valued in 2008 at $554,160 (equivalent to $809,313 in 2024) by Tarrant Appraisal District. The site includes the Eagle Mountain International Church,[24] television and radio production facilities, warehouse and distribution facilities, residences for the Copeland family, and Kenneth Copeland Airport.[25] As of 2024, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records indicated that no aircraft were based at the airport and that it had a single usable runway;[26] that same year, KCM told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that it was raising money to resurface the second runway so it could be used again. It was using the former Marine Corps hospital building as a medical clinic for church members.[27] In 2008, approximately 500 people were employed by KCM.[25] Copeland’s son John Copeland was the ministry’s chief operating officer until his divorce from Marty Copeland in 2018.[28] He remains a consultant to the ministry.[citation needed]
KCM owns several business jets, including a 1998 Cessna 550 Citation Bravo, which it received from a donor in October 2007 and is used for domestic flights, and a 2005 Cessna 750 Citation X, which it uses for international flights. In 2018, KCM acquired a Gulfstream V that was formerly owned by Tyler Perry,[29] and was restoring a 1962 Beech H-18 Twin, which the ministry plans to use for disaster relief efforts.[30][31]
- He’s admitting he grew far from God.
- He has his name on “his” ministry.
- Tries hard to get people to give him money.
- All the marks of the others.
- Why do you need to get married so many times?
There’s nothing Biblical about this. All the offerings go to him. No translator for his tongues.
Again there is time for God to change him too. Hopefully that happens, because he’s confusing a lot of people.