This project is an historical examination and of the lives and ministries of Dr. John F. MacArthur and Dr. Robert H. Schuller. To accomplish this, the paper was divided into three parts for each man. The first part focuses on the "roots and water" of the person. This section identifies and examines the influences which history has shown have had the greatest and most sustained effect on each man's immediate and long-term thinking.The second part takes this one step further by looking at how their thinking has affected what "fruit" they have produced throughout their lives, in terms of goals made and projects undertaken. This then looks closely at what they have tried to accomplish through their ministry goals and activities.The final section then wraps the paper up by showing what their critics have said about what they have done and continue to do in their individual ministries.