D. James Kennedy

Dennis James Kennedy (3 November 1930 – 5 September 2007) was an American pastor, evangelist, Christian broadcaster, and author. He was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries (now known as D. James Kennedy Ministries), the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, radio station WAFG-FM, and the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, a socially conservative political group. Quotes The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ. "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions," Coral Ridge Ministries, 1993. Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society. "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference February, 2005 How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ. Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul D. James Kennedy, Zondervan Publishing House, 1997, p. 80 The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization … Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race'... Kennedy Calls for Constitutional "Firewall" to Protect Marriage Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, November 19, 2003 Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality. They will not have you condemning what they have done as being wrong, and they have created a belief system in which it is not, and in which they are no longer the criminal or the villain or the evil person, but you are! "The New Tolerance" in The Christian Post, March 17, 2007. The article appears to be condensed from Kennedy's sermon of the same title, recordings of which can be found online. (Possible original source of a spurious quotation frequently attributed to Aristotle.) External links Category:Christian leaders Category:Presbyterians from the United States Category:Television personalities Category:1930 births Category:2007 deaths Category:People from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Christian fundamentalists Category:Activists from the United States Category:New York University alumni