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Robert Gibson Tilton (born June 7, 1946) is an American televangelist of the prosperity gospel widely known for his infomercial-styled religious television program ''Success-N-Life'', which at its peak in 1991 aired in all 235 American TV markets (daily in the majority of them), brought in nearly $80 million per year, and was described as "the fastest growing television ministry in America."〔"The Apple of God's Eye," produced by Robbie Gordon, ''Primetime Live'', first broadcast November 21, 1991.〕 Within two years after ABC's ''Primetime Live'' examined Tilton's fundraising practices, beginning a series of investigations into the ministry, his program was taken off the air. Tilton later returned to television via his new version of ''Success-N-Life'' airing on BET and The Word Network. ==Biography and the early years== According to Tilton's autobiographical materials, he had a conversion experience to evangelical Christianity in 1969〔("Robert Tilton – The Story" ), Robert-Tilton.com, retrieved June 11, 2006.〕 and began his ministry in 1974, taking his new family (including wife Martha "Marte" Phillips, whom he married in 1968) on the road to, in his words, "preach this gospel of Jesus."〔 Tilton preached to small congregations and revivals throughout Texas and Oklahoma.〔("Prosperity and Healing: Is it Promised to the Believer? ), Ken L. Sarles, retrieved June 11, 2006.〕 Tilton and his family settled in Dallas, Texas, and built a small nondenominational charismatic church in Farmers Branch, Texas, called the "Word Of Faith Family Church" in 1976.〔 The church also started a local television program then known as ''Daystar'' (not related to the Daystar Television Network, though both were started in the Dallas area). Tilton's announcer on ''Daystar'' was Miami radio personality and voice-over artist Dave Mitchell, who was based in Dallas at the time. Tilton's young church was growing steadily, but ''Daystar'' failed to expand beyond the Dallas area until Tilton went to Hawaii—his self-described version of Jesus's forty days in the wilderness〔"Robert Tilton's Heart of Darkness," Scott Baradell, first published in the ''Dallas Observer'' on February 6, 1992, p. 18; quoted in ''Christianity In Crisis'' by Hank Hanegraaff, Harvest House Publishers, 1993, p. 347.〕—and spent time fishing, drinking, and watching an increasingly popular new form of television programming: the late-night infomercial. Tilton was particularly influenced by Dave Del Dotto, a real estate promoter who produced hour-long infomercials showing his glamorous life in Hawaii (which he constantly stressed anyone could achieve just by following the principles set up in his many "get rich quick" books) as well as "interviews" with students who were brought out to his Hawaiian villa for said interviews, specifically for their on-camera testimonials about the success in life they were now enjoying thanks to his teachings.〔 Upon his return from Hawaii in 1981, Tilton, with the help of a US$1.3M loan from Dallas banker Herman Beebe,〔 revamped ''Daystar'' into an hour-long "religious infomercial" with the title ''Success-N-Life''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Tilton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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