This week in my worldview assignment, I was asked to research the Trinity Broadcasting Network (or TBN). It is an organization that was established in the mid-nineteen seventies in order to reach people for Christ. Today, TBN works through around 300 stations in the United States and broadcasts on many more around the world.
TBN hosts different famous pastors, authors, and artists. They define their beliefs and opinions of things through their questions and answers on their show. I watched a couple of shows of the Trinity Broadcasting Network in which they inerviewed on personal beliefs and experiences. In both cases, the audience present expressed their emotions in clapping in general approval. The network seemed to me to be a positive show with beneficial information.
I can't speak for the personal beliefs and standards of the network's founders and current authority (which is the Crouch family), but I do question their motives in the establishment of the organization. TBN receives large amounts of money every year from generous donors. Multiple reports have risen about where that money goes. Close family members and employees have said that the Crouch family spends the money lavishly on themselves, and dishonestly hoards donated money to themselves. These examples that have questioned the character of the Crouchs has made me doubt the sincerity for which they claim to run the organization. Do they really do it all for the glory of God?
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