Jack Coe

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Jack Coe (born March 11, 1918 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , † December 16, 1956 in Dallas, Texas ) was an American Pentecostal pastor and healing evangelist .

Life

Jack Coe was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1918 and sent to an orphanage after his parents separated in 1927 when he was just nine years old. In 1935 he left the facility as an alcoholic and deeply dissatisfied with his life. Through an evangelism for the Church of the Nazarene , Jack Coe developed an interest in Christianity and attended the Southwestern Bible Institute in Enid, Oklahoma . The Bible school belonged to the Assemblies of God , which introduced Jack Coe to the Pentecostal faith. He joined the US Army during World War II . In the course of the war he fell ill with malaria in 1944 and is said to have recovered through spiritual healing . Ordained by the Assemblies of God, he felt himself called by God to the healing ministry. For this purpose, Jack Coe sold the house in which he lived with his wife Juanita in 1946 and became a traveling revival preacher and spiritual healer who held his events in a mission tent. Coe is considered one of the earliest healing evangelists who also attracted the African American community. In his ministry he was assisted by Gordon Lindsay and his monthly magazine, Voice of Healing , which announced his campaigns and those of other healing evangelists. This sometimes led to competition. When Jack Coe's need for recognition began to suffer from the fact that Oral Roberts had a larger mission tent than he did, he bought an even bigger one. In 1950 he finally broke away from The Voice of Healing and published his own advertising magazine with the title " Herald of Healing ", which had about 300,000 readers at its heyday. His fame grew from 1952 with radio and television appearances. Like many healing evangelists, Jack Coe boasted of healing thousands of people. However, his crude methods and harsh choice of words set him apart. For example, he pulled physically impaired people out of their wheelchairs during his events and denied them their faith if they did not notice any improvement in their health through his prayers. Jack Coe's endless exaggerations and controversial statements ultimately led to his being officially expelled from the Assemblies of God in 1953. Jack Coe then founded his own church fellowship in Dallas, Texas , which was named "Dallas Revival Center". At the opening in 1954 Demos Shakarian appeared among others . In February 1956, Jack Coe was arrested in Miami, Florida for practicing medicine without a license after a paralyzed boy whom he had declared cured suffered severe harm from not using his walking aids. Jack Coe developed bulbar poliomyelitis himself at the end of the year . He died on December 16, 1956 in Dallas, Texas. His mission tent was purchased by AA Allen , who used it for his healing evangelist events.

Jack Coe is counted among the negative examples of the Healing Revival .

literature

  • Hank Hanegraaff: Counterfeit Revival: Looking For God in All the Wrong Places , Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee 1997
  • David Edwin Harrell: All things are possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in modern America , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 1975

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Edwin Harrell: All Things are possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in modern America , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 1975 (reissued 1978), p. 58
  2. ↑ Harrell 1975, p. 59
  3. ↑ Roy Weremchuk: THUS Saith the Lord? , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2019, p. 135
  4. ^ David Edwin Harrell: Oral Roberts: An American Life , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 1985, p. 152
  5. ↑ Hank Hanegraaff: Counterfeit Revival: Looking For God in All the Wrong Places , Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee 1997 (new edition 2001), p. 153 f.
  6. ↑ James Robinson: Divine Healing: The Holiness-Pentecostal Transition Years, 1890-1906 , Pickwick Publications, Eugene, Oregon 2013, p. 208
  7. ^ Life Magazine, New York, NY, March 5, 1956, p. 63
  8. ↑ See James Randi: The Faith Healers , Prometheus Press, NY 1989
personal data
SURNAME Coe, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Pentecostal pastor, healing evangelist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1956
Place of death Dallas, Texas