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...from his TV audience, Bakker relies on his Bible and his fan mail, the closest thing he has to a ministry. He says he has received more than 500 letters just from other ministers, as well as offers to serve as a pastor or appear on TV shows. "I've been invited to be a clergyman in, I think, half the world's religions...
After 68 nominations and nine ballots, the 1,045 convention delegates elected as the ELCA's first national leader Bishop Herbert W. Chilstrom, 55, who heads the Minnesota district of the Lutheran Church in America, one of the merging denominations; his wife Corinne is a pastor in another, the American Lutheran Church. Chilstrom, who underwent cancer surgery in 1985, says that he intends "to spend a lot of time moving around the country to promote a sense of oneness...
...Jerry Falwell, the Lynchburg, Va., politician-pastor, TV personality and university head, was firmly in control of PTL, having taken over the organization at Bakker's behest. At an emergency meeting of the reconstituted PTL board at Heritage USA, Bakker's No. 1 aide, the Rev. Richard Dortch, was installed as president of the organization...
Those on Hahn's side portray her as a devout follower of Bakker's who was spiritually and emotionally "shattered" by the tryst. Hahn told her pastor, the Rev. Gene Profeta, about the incident. Profeta consulted his friend Paul R. Roper, a business consultant in Anaheim, Calif., and self-appointed monitor of clergy skulduggery. John Stewart, a Christian broadcaster and teacher at ! the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this...
...pressure for public financial accountability from all religious broadcasters who solicit funds over the airwaves . . . The personal life-styles of those who appeal for sacrificial support will also come under more scrutiny by the churches and by a skeptical society." To Presbyterian Minister Ben Haden of Chattanooga, Tenn., a pastor and radio-TV speaker, such changes will be good for evangelism: "The No. 1 stumbling block to the unbeliever about the Christian faith is not the Cross or the Second Coming or the Virgin Birth. It is the money angle...