26 Facts About Robert Tilton

Robert Tilton was born on June 7,1946 and is an American televangelist and the former pastor of the Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Robert Tilton later returned to television on a new version of the program airing on BET and The Word Network.

Robert Tilton was born in McKinney, Texas, on June 7,1946 to Margaret and Clyde Tilton.

Robert Tilton attended Cooke County Junior College and Texas Technological University.

Robert Tilton married his first wife, Martha "Marte" Phillips, in 1968.

Robert Tilton's family settled in Dallas and built the Word of Faith Family Church, a small nondenominational charismatic church in Farmers Branch, in 1976.

Robert Tilton was particularly influenced by Dave Del Dotto, a real estate promoter who hosted hour-long infomercials showing his glamorous life in Hawaii, as well as on-camera testimonials lauding his "get rich quick" books.

On Success-N-Life, Robert Tilton regularly taught that all of life's trials, especially poverty, were a result of sin.

Robert Tilton's preferred vow, stressed frequently on his broadcasts, was $1,000.

Robert Tilton wrote several self help books about financial success, including The Power to Create Wealth, God's Laws of Success, How to Pay Your Bills Supernaturally, and How to be Rich and Have Everything You Ever Wanted.

The investigation, assisted by Trinity Foundation president Ole Anthony and broadcast on ABC's Primetime Live on November 21,1991, alleged that Robert Tilton's ministry threw away prayer requests without reading them, keeping only the accompanying money or valuables sent to the ministry by viewers, garnering his ministry an estimated US$80 million a year.

Curious about the pervasiveness of the problem, the Trinity Foundation got on the mailing lists of several televangelists, including Robert Tilton, and started keeping records of the many types of solicitations they received almost daily from various ministries.

Robert Tilton had been a longtime donor and gave up his last $5,000 as a "vow of faith" just weeks earlier.

Guetzlaff's experience, combined with the sheer magnitude of mailings from Robert Tilton's ministry, spurred Anthony, a former Air Force intelligence officer and licensed private investigator, to start a full investigation of Robert Tilton's ministry.

The director of Response Media, Jim Moore, described for Anthony and the hidden cameras many techniques used by Robert Tilton to raise funds for his ministry.

Robert Tilton claimed that he needed plastic surgery to repair capillary damage to his lower eyelids from ink that seeped into his skin from the prayer requests.

In 1992, Robert Tilton sued ABC for libel because of its investigation and report, but the case was dismissed in 1993.

Robert Tilton claimed that the individuals conspired to violate his First Amendment rights under a federal statute designed to protect black citizens from the Ku Klux Klan.

The fraud cases continued until the Texas Supreme Court eventually ruled that the plaintiffs could not prove damages because they could not show that, if Robert Tilton had actually prayed over the prayer requests, the prayers would have been answered.

In March 2005, Robert Tilton started a new church in Hallandale, Florida, not far from his home in Miami Beach.

Robert Tilton established a church in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2005, originally named Christ the Good Shepherd Worldwide Church.

However, Robert Tilton dropped the Tulsa address in late 2007 and used a Miami post office box to receive responses to his fundraising mailings.

In 1998, The Washington Post reported that Robert Tilton's following disappeared after the investigations but he had "joined dozens of other preachers to become fixtures on BET".

Similar videos have since been made with more recent footage of Robert Tilton and are distributed throughout the Internet, all under the Farting Preacher name.

The name "Robert Tilton" is referred to in the song "Cash Cow ", from the album called Squint by music artist and film director Steve Taylor, where it says:.

Robert Tilton's antics are lampooned in the area of software technology by Douglas Crockford.