Oral Roberts University (ORU) lacks faith. It could be considered epidemic in its proportions. It could mean the devastation of many lives. How is this lack of faith able to rampantly spread across the campus? How is it that the people at Oral Roberts U, the faith leaders, haven’t been able to stem this tide of unbelief?

If you didn’t know, ORU was founded by Oral Roberts. Oral Roberts was one of the founding fathers (?) of the Word of Faith movement. He was one of the first of the Name it and Claim It progenitors. He had so much faith it could not be measured. His astounding faith led him to be a rich man. This is man who pioneered the seed-faith giving ministry. The idea of seed-faith is that you send him money and God will bless it tenfold, but only if you send it to him. What a man of faith!

Remember, he was the one who begged his followers to send money to him in 1987. If his followers did not send him a sum total of $8M by the end of March in 1987, God was going to cause him to die and go to heaven. He prayed so hard. Even though he didn’t reach his goal, God must’ve changed His mind. God may have decided He couldn’t deprive the earth of such a man of faith. This man Oral Roberts must’ve been one man of faith.

So why has his university abandoned his example of faith?

What is my evidence that ORU has lost its faith? It is because of their athletics program.

If the Name it and Claim It doctrine was true then the athletics programs should be winning the championship in all the sports, leagues and athletic conferences they are a member of. They ought to be winning the national championship in every single sport for every single season they participate. They should be sitting in their locker rooms just praying, no, stating with absolute confidence that it will happen, that God has already given to them the national title of every sport.

Would they even need to practice? All they would need to do was show up to the field or court or complex and they would win, if the Word of Faith dogma was true. Some will say that isn’t how it works but it either works for everything or it doesn’t work at all.

But it isn’t true, and the evidence is in their athletic programs. The doctrine of Word Faith demands that once they claim it in faith then its as good as done.