Dr adrian rogers funeral service
Today, we honor Dr. Adrian Rogers who passed away on November 15, to spend eternity with our Heavenly Father.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)–Even in the face of death, friends say, Adrian Rogers exemplified the Christian faith he spent a lifetime sharing.
The longtime pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in suburban Memphis and the three-time Southern Baptist Convention president died Nov.
15 at the age of 74 following a battle with pneumonia and cancer.
But days earlier — before he slipped into unconsciousness — Rogers delivered a message to those gathered in his hospital room that won’t soon be forgotten.
At the time, doctors were preparing to place Rogers on a ventilator, which would prevent him from speaking.
Steve Gaines, Rogers’ successor at Bellevue, was in the room.
“The last thing I heard him say was, ‘I am at perfect peace,'” Gaines, who succeeded Rogers this year, told Baptist Press.
Gaines and others then left the room, but Gaines decided to go back in to see Rogers “one more time.” By then, Rogers was on the ventilator, unabl