Rogers wrote the 300-word letter in recent years at the urging of the Love Worth Finding board of directors. He died just eight months after his retirement at the age of 74. Love Worth Finding is entirely separate from Bellevue Baptist Church, where Rogers served as pastor from 1972 until his retirement in March 2005. At that time and at the pleasure of the board, we could bring in another television personality. We have, in the planning stages now, television programs that have never been aired that will go through the end of 2008. “ television, because of technology and the dating of physical appearance, obviously is more dated. “As far as radio is concerned, can conceivably go on until Jesus comes,” Skelton said, adding that Rogers’ sermons contained “timeless” biblical principles that will have the same meaning years from now as they do today. Love Worth Finding is broadcast Monday through Friday on radio and once a week on television.īill Skelton, executive vice president of Memphis-based Love Worth Finding, told Baptist Press that the ministry has more than 3,000 of Rogers’ messages in the archives - some of which have never aired. Even though Rogers was known as a quintessential Southern Baptist, his radio and television ministry provided a vehicle whereby millions of non-Southern Baptists worldwide came to recognize his unique, deep preaching voice. Launched by Rogers in 1987, Love Worth Finding is broadcast in more than 150 countries and can be heard 24 hours a day on the Internet. “Today there are still millions of people who do not know our dear Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and who are in desperate need of His redeeming grace.” “My dear friend, the simplest way I could state it would be, that while the messenger is gone, the message must continue,” the letter reads. 15 after battling cancer and pneumonia - says that while his “earthly work is completed,” he penned the letter so that friends of the ministry could know what “would be on my heart if I could still speak to you today.” “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith, and am now in the presence of our dear Lord Jesus praising and worshiping Him.” “If you are reading this letter it means that God has called me into His glorious presence,” the letter begins.
ADRIAN ROGERS SERMONS ON THANKSGIVING TV
(BP)–A letter that Adrian Rogers wrote for use in the event of his death is being mailed to contributors to his Love Worth Finding radio and TV ministry, making it clear he wanted the ministry to continue after he was gone.
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