Word: preach
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With Swaggart, leaders of the Louisiana district of the Assemblies of God last week showed considerably more solicitude. Meeting the day after Swaggart's sermon, they judged his repentance genuine and prescribed a three- month suspension from preaching, except for commitments already made to preach abroad. As part of a two-year process of "rehabilitation," including supervision by clergy, Swaggart would have to step down as co-pastor of the Baton Rouge church for the three months. Left open was the question of Swaggart's TV shows...
...videotapes on the shelf to fill a three-month or one-year void on TV. However, PTL cable decided last week to continue the daily show only if Swaggart does not preside, and Robertson's CBN said it would run the Sunday worship hour only if Swaggart did not preach. Secular stations, however, may be happy to run old Swaggart tapes, so long as the payments arrive on time...
Doctrinally, the Boston Church of Christdoesn't differ that radically from otherFundamentalist churches. They, too, preach thatthe Bible is the ultimate authority on all moralquestions, that adult baptism by immersion isnecessary for salvation, and that most establishedchurches have departed from the true path of theLord...
...than inclusionary" and thus inappropriate to America's pluralism. Equally inappropriate, says Faye Wattleton, president of Planned Parenthood, are the "shades of a superculture idea." She asks, "Why does Mr. Wattenberg believe that it is only the mouths of the upper class and presumably white upper class that can preach the gospel of democracy...
...care," she told the Madison Square Garden crowd. "AIDS is a strange and powerful disease. But we're more powerful." Then Madonna, who lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised $400,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), and from a comic book about AIDS. "Read this booklet," a handwritten note urged, "then...