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John Hagee is a televangelist and pastor. He founded the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. His religious organization is a non-denominational evangelical church with 17,000 members.
Biography
John Hagee graduated from Trinity University with a B.S. in 1964. He was on a football scholarship and was on the Academic Dean's List. He also attended North Texas State University in 1966 where he received his Masters Degree. In 1989 he received his Honorary Doctorate from Oral Roberts University. His theological training came at Southwestern Assemblies of God University near Dallas.
Hagee is married to Diana Castro Hagee, who was his secretary during his previous marriage, and has five children. Personal Freedom Outreach reported in its Quarterly Journal that Hagee was married and divorced previously.
Ministry
Hagee is the CEO of Global Evangelism Television (GETV) which telecasts his national radio and television ministry. The John Hagee Ministries is broadcast in the USA, Canada and allegedly in Europe, Africa, and many Third World nations.
He is the author of many books, several of which made the New York Times Best Seller List and sold well in bookstores.
The John Hagee Ministries has given more than $3.7 million to bring Soviet Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel. According to his organizations website, John Hagee has received many awards and recommendations as a result of this.
Hagee is considered relatively conservative compared to some other televangelists. (For example, he asks his congregation to stand during the reading of the Biblical text prior to his sermon, and his style can be classified as "hellfire and brimstone".) Hagee, like some other evangelical ministers, condemns literature such as J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter, calling it contemporary witchcraft. In addition, Personal Freedom Outreach claims that Hagee believes in dual-covenant theology which teaches that Jews will go to Heaven automatically, whereas Gentiles of all ethnicities must convert to Christianity. However, John Hagee has denied belief in dual-covenant theology in an official statement to the Jerusalem Post on March 1, 2006.
Financial Controversy
In 2003 the San Antonio Express-News reported that, in 2001 alone, John Hagee had received over 1.25 million dollars in total compensation for his position as CEO at his non-profit corporation Global Evangelism Televsion (GETV). This made him one of the highest-paid televangelists in 2001.
According to the Form 990 that GETV filed for tax year 2003, Hagee that year received almost a million dollars in compensation for his work for GETV, which amounted to approximately 16 hours per week. Hagee, responding to allegations pertaining to his salary, has claimed, "I deserve every dime I'm getting." .
In addition to his work for GETV, Hagee supplements his income with the profits generated by a number of best-selling books he has authored.
Miscellaneous
- Video clips of Hagee have been shown as part of the "God stuff" segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Quotes
- "You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God." -Faith under Fire broadcast, (September 12, 2005)