Is your kind of love phileo love or Agape love?
Love Poem
When we say we love, do we know the meaning it serves?
Do we deem it insane to suffer others' pains?
Does it wreck our nerves knowing there's nothing to gain?
There was once a man, just like you and I;
In flesh and blood He came; For all of us He died!
The One who loves us most, alas His hands we bite!
How cruel it was to be, to have Him crucified!
But in His greatest pain, He loves us all the more;
While we laughed and mocked, all our sins He bore!
He was free from wrongs and yet on the Cross He died!
This is the kind of love, we must keep in sight!
Who Is Joyce Meyer?
Meyer was born in the St. Louis area in 1943, and still speaks with a working-class St. Louis accent. Her father went into the Army to fight in World War II soon after she was born. Meyer has said in interviews that he began molesting her upon his return. She often talks about her experience in her meetings.
A graduate of O'Fallon Technical High School in St. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school. The marriage lasted five years. She maintains that he frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer, which they used to fund a vacation to California. Meyer claims to have returned the money years later. After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting current husband Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman, with whom she celebrated their 40th anniversary on January 7, 2007.
Meyer reports that she was praying intensely while driving to work one morning in 1976 when she said she heard God call her name. She had converted to Christianity at age nine, but her unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith.
I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years.
She says that she came home later that day from a beauty appointment "full of liquid love" and was "drunk with the Spirit of God" (and spoke in tongues) that night while at the local bowling alley.
She began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a Charismatic church begun in 1980. Meyer became one of the church's associate pastors and began her pulpit ministry there by hosting and teaching the weekly women's Bible study - "Life in the Word." Meyer's first media ministry began with a daily 15-minute radio broadcast that followed the church's daily broadcast on a St. Louis radio station.
In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called "Life in the Word" after her popular women's meeting at Life Christian Center. She began airing her radio show on six other stations from Chicago to Kansas City.
In 1993, her husband, Dave, suggested that they start a television ministry. Initially airing on superstation WGN-TV in Chicago and BET, her program, now called "Enjoying Everyday Life," reaches a large audience.
In late 2000, she opened "St. Louis Dream Center," a social service outreach and ministry in the O'Fallon Park section of St. Louis.
In 2004 St. Louis Christian television station KNLC, operated by the Rev. Larry Rice of New Life Evangelistic Center, dropped Meyer's programming. Rice had been a longstanding Meyer supporter, but claimed that her "excessive lifestyle" and teachings which often go "beyond Scripture" were the impetus for canceling her program.
In 2005, Time magazine's 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America ranked Joyce Meyer as 17th.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Meyer
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