About This Quiz
Pray that you'll be guided correctly toward the right path in answering this screenshot quiz. Can you tell which pastor is featured in the photo, and which church or affiliation each one is connected to?Â
Religion has always been a huge thing in civilization. Ever since human society started developing, faith-based systems also started developing. There are different kinds of systems based on what kind of supreme being each faith is honoring. There are even faiths where they honor many kinds of deities or supreme beings.Â
These days, organized religion is a huge thing, worldwide. While different world cultures still have varied gods and deities for worshipping, the fact that humans need to recognize a supreme being still remains. And in today's super-busy and super-harried societies, even organized faiths and religions have adapted to the changing times. Thus, we now see megachurches and different kinds of pastoral services delivered not only within the altar or pulpit, but also in television broadcasts and even in traveling engagements.
So, we'll try to drop the names of some famous churches, congregations and organizations, and you tell us the pastors or religious leaders affiliated with them, OK? May the divine guide you in this journey.
Joel Osteen heads Lakewood Church in Texas. He's also a New York Times best selling author.
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Jerry Falwell passed away in 2007. He was the one who founded the megachurch called Thomas Road Baptist Church in Virginia.
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Marc Driscoll was the recognized co-founder of the Mars Hill Church based in Seattle, Washington. Since stepping down from his post there as pastor, he founded the Trinity Church now based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Rick Warren is the pastor of the 8th biggest church in America, called Saddleback Church. It's a megachurch.
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Charles Swindoll, also known as Chuck, is connected to the Stonebriar Community Church. He also started Insight for Living, also based in Frisco, Texas like his church.
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Civil Rights Movement figure Martin Luther King, Jr. was a pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. This has now been renamed to honor him, now called Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church.
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Paula White is also part of US President Donald Trump's evangelical advisory board. She's like his spiritual advisor.
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The Cornerstone megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, is run by founder and pastor John Hagee. He also has a media company named Global Evangelism Television.
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Creflo Dollar got into some controversy a few years back when he asked his World Changers Church International followers to donate money so he could buy a jet. Hm, what would jesus say and do about this?
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Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church. That's in Georgia.
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Even though he's dead, Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church continues to preach anti-gay hatred. In fact, they still have their hate-filled church website which we won't name here.
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Charles Stanley is the father of Andy Stanley. His First Baptist Church is also in Georgia.
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T.D. Jakes is also a media-savvy pastor. He's based in Dallas, Texas where his The Potter's House Church is.
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L. Ron Hubbard is recognized as the founder of the Church of Scientology. It's a controversial church, then and now.
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Ed Young is one of those pastors against giving LGBT protection. He once urged his church members to vote against a Houston bill that has anti-discriminatory practices.
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Bill Hybels is a respected preacher in his circles. His church is in South Barrington, Illinois.
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Dwight L. Moody was a 19th century evangelist. Moody Church is located in Chicago.
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Ed Young, Jr. is Edwin Young's son. Preaching runs in their family.
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David Wilkerson established the Times Square Church in New York City. He is the author of a popular book called The Cross and the Switchblade.
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Craig Groeschel founded Life.Church. It's now considered as one of the largest churches in the USA.
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Charles Blake Sr. is actually a bishop. His archdiocese is located in Los Angeles, California.
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The infamous siege at Waco, Texas had David Koresh forcing Branch Davidian members to stay with him there until the end. He considered himself a kind of prophet, which some followers believed.
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Ted Haggard founded the New Life Church, but had to step down as its pastor when a scandal erupted about him in 2006. Allegations of gay sex with male prostitutes and drug use were just two details of that scandal, which he later said he already overcame.
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Nick Vujicic tours the world as a motivational speaker. He is Serbian-Australian.
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Woodlands Church in Texas is one of the top 10 biggest megachurches in the USA today. And it's all thanks to the work of its pastor, Kerry Shook.
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Reverend Justin R. Cannon embraces the LGBTQ community with his very affirmative ministry called Inclusive Orthodoxy. The progressive ministry has been praised in various progressive sectors, as well as the LGBTQ community in the US.
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Fort Lauderdale's fastest-growing megachurch called Calvary Chapel was founded by Robert Coy. However, he had to step down in 2014 due to some controversy about having affairs.
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Pat Robertson has got to be the most high-profile conservative Christian figure to come out of last century. He's still at it this century, especially when he airs his views on The 700 Club TV show, syndicated worldwide.
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The 1980s was rocked by news of pastors doing illegal activities. Jim Bakker, together with Tammy Faye Bakker, became infamous during that time for various allegations and crimes.
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Malcolm X was an influential human rights minister, much like MLK. And like MLK, he was also assassinated.
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Adrian Rogers was able to grow Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church membership during his reign there as pastor. He passed away in 2005, shortly after stepping down as pastor.
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Thanks to W.A. Criswell's pioneering efforts, the development of the megachurch concept happened during the late 1900s. He passed away in 2002.
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Jim Jones was the minister of the Peoples Temple who was able to persuade hundreds of followers to commit mass suicide in their Guyana settlement. This eventually became known as the Jonestown Massacre.
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Jeremiah Wright retired from the Trinity United Church in Christ and is now their pastor emeritus. That church is located in Chicago.
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Televangelist Marcus Lamb's media ministry has a huge TV following. He also used this platform back in 2010 to ask for forgiveness for an affair he had before.
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Dr. William A. Jones is considered as one of the best black preachers by Ebony Magazine. The multi-awarded pastor passed away in 2006.
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Brian Houston is the global senior pastor of HIllsong Church in Australia. He was born in New Zealand, though.
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Billy Graham is considered as one of the most influential evangelical Christians during his lifetime, having been the spiritual adviser to a host of US presidents since the 1940s up to Obama's time. He also established the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and preached worldwide.
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The Joyce Meyer Ministries was once investigated by the US Senate due to the lavish lifestyle that its head, Joyce Meyer, was supposedly living. This is in connection with the concept of "prosperity theology."
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Who could forget the infamous "I have sinned" speech given by Jimmy Swaggart in front of his TV audience during the 1980s, complete with his crying and all? The televangelist was defrocked by the Assemblies of God as a result of multiple incidents of scandal that involved him and some prostitutes in various times.
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