Adrian Pierce Rogers was an American Southern Baptist pastor and conservative author.
16 Facts About Adrian Rogers
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Adrian Rogers served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Adrian Rogers entered Christian ministry at the age of nineteen.
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Adrian Rogers graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Adrian Rogers performed his first baptism in the C-54 Canal near Fellsmere.
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Adrian Rogers was senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Merritt Island, Florida from 1964 to 1972.
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Adrian Rogers was named pastor emeritus after his retirement in March 2005.
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Adrian Rogers was instrumental in the Southern Baptist denomination's conservative resurgence that began in the late 1970s, as he was elected president of the denomination during a theological controversy within the denomination.
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Adrian Rogers was the chairman of the committee which produced the revised 2000 edition of the Baptist Faith and Message.
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Adrian Rogers published eighteen books and his works are featured on the internationally available radio and television program, Love Worth Finding, which is broadcast in English and Spanish.
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In November 2005, Adrian Rogers contracted pneumonia of both lungs as a complication of colon cancer treatments, and died following a period of mechanical ventilation at the age of seventy-four.
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Adrian Rogers served three times as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest American Evangelical denomination with 16 million members.
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Adrian Rogers was the first conservative elected to this post in 1979 on a platform of biblical inerrancy, and beginning under his leadership, the denomination went through a ten-year-long process of shifting to a theologically conservative stance.
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Adrian Rogers stated that Christians have a duty to be involved in government.
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Adrian Rogers was an adamant supporter of the pro-life movement, had stated that the institution of capital punishment is spiritually ordained, and supported a boycott of Disney because of the company's promotion of homosexuality.
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Since 2009, when the quote was first attributed to Adrian Rogers, it has been regularly attributed to him; even though Adrian Rogers was essentially quoting Eastland or Smith at the time.