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The Rev. Canon Charles Fulton is a retired Episcopal priest and the former president of Acts 29 Ministries, based in Atlanta, GA.
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The Rev. Canon Charles Fulton is a retired Episcopal priest and the former president of Acts 29 Ministries, based in Atlanta, GA.
Charles Fulton is an American minister and businessman who most notably served as president of ACTS 29 Ministries and who was a prominent leader in the Christian renewal movement of the 1980s and 1990s.
The son of federal judge Charles B. Fulton, he was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He achieved his bachelor's degree from Stetson University, where his focus was on pre-law and business studies. Following an experience at a Billy Graham crusade, he became convinced that his destiny lay with an ordination in the Episcopal Church.
Following his graduation from Stetson and a tour of duty in the United States Army, Fulton enrolled in Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, where he received his M.Div. in 1964. He was ordained into the diaconate in August 1964, and became a priest in December of that year.
Fulton spent the next 30 years mostly as a parish priest, though from 1974-1980 he re-entered the business world as the Executive Vice President of Snelling & Snelling, which at the time was the world's largest employment agency. In 1980, however, he felt that God was calling him back into full-time ministry, and he resigned from the business world and started a new Episcopal church in Osprey, Florida.
In 1987, he was called to a church in Jacksonville, Florida, and in 1993 he was chosen by the board of directors of ACTS 29 Ministries to serve as that organization's third president since its inception in 1973.
During his time at ACTS 29, Fulton moved the headquarters from Evergreen, Colorado to Atlanta, Georgia. He also founded the YouthQuake conference, which is held each January in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. He also served on the steering committee for the North American Renewal Service Committee, an umbrella organization that unites the renewal efforts of every major Christian denomination. Fulton also helped organized that organization's international conferences in Orlando, Florida (1995) and St. Louis, Missouri (2000). He was also one of the keynote speakers in 2000.
Fulton retired from full-time ministry in 2003. He now spends much of his time raising Tennessee Walking Horses.
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Get Out of the Boat
Matt. 14:22-34; Hebrews 11
April 19, 1998
The Rev. Canon Charles Fulton (TEC)Tell me what do you think of the scripture? What think ye if I were in that King James era of the Word of God? Would you agree with Paul as he writes to Timothy? All scripture is inspired by God, and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Oh don't take an exception to it, it means man or woman be equipped for every good work. Or would you say that the Bible is a book of information or simply inspiration? Or is it God's revelation? Well we are working from the idea it is not only the inspiring word of God but it is revelatory. I marvel as I look at the religions of the world. In my experience I have never noticed that a Buddhist is pulling the Pali apart, one of the three canons. Or a Muslim attacking the Koran. But in Christendom, in some corners, people have analyzed the scripture until they become paralyzed.
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The One Thing God Can't Do
March 15, 1998
The Rev. Canon Charles Fulton (TEC)There's one thing our God can't do and that's contradict himself. In Matthew 28 at verse 19 "Therefore go and make Disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Oh, it's not that they haven't many people and many thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of people. It's not that they haven't been baptized. It's just that they have not been disciples. Have you ever pondered the idea of why the whole world isn't Christian.
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