Prosperity Gospel Televangelist Paula White, Trump Top Spiritual Adviser, Joining the Administration
By Julio Severo
President Donald Trump’s top spiritual
adviser, prosperity gospel televangelist Paula White, has been chosen by Trump
as head of the White House’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative.
Trump and Paula White |
The prosperity gospel televangelist also
served on Trump’s evangelical
advisory board during his 2016 campaign.
White was one of the pastors to pray
during Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 and has coordinated several visits
by evangelical leaders to the White House since.
Trump first contacted White by telephone
in 2001 after seeing her on Christian television.
He told her she had the “it” factor, she
recalled.
“Sir, we call that the ‘anointing,’” White
responded.
“And he began to almost verbatim repeat to
me three of my sermons on value of vision.”
“And so he begins telling me his life,”
she continued. “About being confirmed Presbyterian. Raised in Norman Vincent
Peale’s church. He went into deep sermons. His faith walk. His mother who was a
very Godly woman — a woman of prayer.”
The televangelist said that she prays
for Trump every day.
“This is a man and a president who loves
prayer and loves God and I think people are shocked and amazed by that,” White
said.
Even though prosperity gospel preachers
are heavily criticized by Presbyterians, Trump has found in White’s faith and anointing
a living spirituality that he has never found in his original Presbyterian
church.
While most Presbyterians and other
traditional Protestants embrace liberal stances and politicians, White and
other charismatic leaders embrace Trump.
So people should not judge the imperfect
ways God is using to touch Trump, but pray that Trump may be blessed by Him through
these imperfect channels, including the prosperity gospel and a female minister.
Portuguese
version of this article: Televangelista da teologia da prosperidade, Paula
White, que é a principal conselheira espiritual de Trump, vai trabalhar no
governo dos EUA
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