Napoleon Hill was the recipient of the wisdom of the ages, given by spirits hovering in his study. According to Hill, the only devil is that person who believes in Satan. Think And Grow Rich is his claim to fame. ("Dream big.." - sound fammiliar? - Parlow channeling Hill.)
Norman Vincent Peale plagiarized occult materials, often verbatim, for his famous book - The Power of Positive Thinking. Peale is a favorite in WELS. When I put copies of The Northwestern Lutheran at the pro-life WELS counseling center, they were taken away and replaced with Peale's magazine. Alpha was supposed to be evangelism for WELS, but it was evangelism for Peale. Stolzenburg had nothing to do with Alpha, even though he meddled in everything else, from teens to OWLS.
Robert Schuller cleverly featured Norman Vincent Peale as he laid the foundation for the anti-confessional, unionistic Church Growth Movement. Schuller, with his beloved son, whom he fired, has been given a Napoleon Hill award for promoting the spooky New Age philosophy of the old fraud Hill.Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Same Old Baloney: Leadership Principles for Church...":
Norman Vincent Peale must fit in here somewhere because I hear the New Age doctrine of Possibility Thinking in what the Church Growth pushers say when they gather on the corner of Maple and Straight to Hell Dr.
