Jack Van Impe
 Jack Van Impe (1930) is a televangelist who appears on his weekly television show Jack Van Impe Presents. Van Impe is known as "The Walking Bible" because of his extensive memorization of Bible verses.
Biography
Originally from Troy, Michigan, Van Impe was an accordion player as a child, performing duets with his missionary father across Michigan and other states. In 1948, Van Impe graduated from high school and entered Detroit Bible College, earning his diploma in 1952 and beginning his career as a preacher and evangelist.
Jack Van Impe Ministries
Jack Van Impe Presents is filmed at the Jack Van Impe Ministries World Outreach Center, located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. His wife, Rexella Van Impe (born 1931), co-hosts the telecast with him. On a typical show, Rexella begins by reading a recent news headline. Van Impe then applies his Bible expertise to interpret the news story from his apocalyptic point-of-view to indicate that the Rapture, Armageddon, and the Second Coming will soon occur.
Van Impe also interprets Bible prophecies, usually from the Book of Revelation, quoting Bible verses throughout his commentary. At the close of every program, Van Impe extends an invitation for viewers to become born again, which is promptly followed by Rexella asking viewers to purchase one of Van Impe's books, video tapes, or other media products. Over the years, Van Impe has set many specific years and dates for the second coming of Jesus, but has continued to move his prediction later. Many of these dates have already passed, and he currently points to 2012 as a possible date for the second coming. Perhaps due to his past errors, Van Impe no longer claims to know the exact date, but quotes verses which imply that humankind should know when the second coming is near.
Theology
For much of his life, Van Impe was a fierce proponent of the fundamentalist doctrine of biblical separation, which advocates the isolation of those thought to be in doctrinal error. However, beginning in late 1970's Van Impe made a marked shift towards the inclusiveness of Ecumenism and Evangelism. His outright break with the fundamental church came in 1984 with the publication of Heart Disease in Christ’s Body. In it, he bemoans "an appalling lack of love and unity among so many of the brothers and sisters in Christ." Van Impe's remedy for this was the relaxing of the fundamentalist definition of a Christian. Specifically, he called for the acceptance as a "true Christian" of anyone who believed
- The inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture.
- The Deity of Christ.
- The Virgin Birth.
- The Substitutionary atonement.
- The physical resurrection of Christ and His personal, bodily return to earth.
Furthermore, Van Impe sought to redefine the very concept of biblical separation. In his new formulation, anyone who disagreed that the conditions above fully defined a "true Christian" was himself in doctrinal error and thus subject to isolation.
Personal views
Once a self-described fundamentalist, Van Impe has moved away from fundamentalism because of his acceptance of Roman Catholicism and especially Pope John Paul II. Regarding his extraordinary memory in regard to Bible verses, Van Impe has said that he has memorized 14,000 verses, and that it took him 35,000 hours to do so. On August 30, 2005, Van Impe said of Pat Robertson, "we do not need an Osama bin Laden" leading us, and called for Robertson to recant his positions calling for assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the death of a Supreme Court Justice.
Health problems
In early 2006, Rexella reported on their TV show that Van Impe had gone into remission after being diagnosed with cancer in 2005. The specific type of cancer he had been diagnosed with was not disclosed. On the same episode, Van Impe added that the radiation treatments he had been undergoing as part of his fight against cancer were what had led to the bout of sepsis he had previously disclosed in mid-2005, an illness so severe that it nearly took his life.
--taken from Wikipedia.org
Selected Books
Official Jack Van Impe Website - www.jvim.com
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