I had the privilege of personally knowing Dr. Falwell for several years when I attended Liberty University. I received a work scholarship that required of me, among other things, to call donors and thank them. Through this job, I was able to get a behind the scenes look of a man who was not money-driven but ministry-driven, asking for money only because his vision required great financial expenses. It takes a strong man of moral integrity to handle ministry budgets as large as Dr. Falwell did — for decades — and not be corrupted by it. In fact, in the last 73 years we have seen a terrible amount of preachers who have fallen into sin and moral scandals — but not Dr. Falwell. Though constantly attacked by critics and constantly scrutinized by his own colleagues and students, Dr. Falwell was truly a man who lived what he preached.
There are several occasions where he and I shared some personal experiences. I will always cherish those times — their impacts on my young life in the ministry were character-forming and wells of wisdom from which I have often drank.
Although for most of the world he will only be known for his political views, I will remember Dr. Falwell for his passionate determination to accomplish that for which God had called him and equipped him to do. I will remember him as an extremely busy minister who found a way to be faithful to his family first, to pastor a church through good times and bad, to be completely devoted to young ministers, and to never waver in his convictions and gospel preaching.
I thank God for gracing His church with Jerry Falwell.
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Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers.
Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University.
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Amen. I appreciated Falwell as well. Unfortunately I posted an article on Falwell and have received criticism for remembering Falwell as a Man of God. That’s too bad . . . he had his faults, but we all do. Anyway thank you for posting this, he indeed was a bold man of God.