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...woman and man told the three of us how they had suffered through the deaths of loved ones, or drug abuse, or poor health, or.... They told us how Jimmy Swaggart had brought them love. It was beautiful, they said. They had dropped out of college, quit their jobs, left their homes and moved from other states to study at Swaggart's Bible College and pray in his church...
...cannot cover sin. It has to be exposed." That was the stern view of the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart last March as he pushed for full disclosure of the adultery and alleged homosexual activities of TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. Swaggart, an emotional, tear-jerking performer whose TV ministry takes in an estimated $140 million a year, called Bakker's behavior a "cancer that needed to be excised...
Last week it was Swaggart's behavior that came under scrutiny by the Assemblies of God, the same evangelical church that excised Bakker from its ministry. After grilling Swaggart, the group's officials announced that "his credentials with the church" were under review. One person who has seen the pictures troubling the church said they include a photograph of Swaggart and a prostitute outside a motel. ABC-TV reported that the allegations had been made by the Rev. Marvin Gorman, yet another televangelist who was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1986 for what one church official called "immorality...
...After Swaggart finished, throngs of worshipers, members of the choir and band and other church officials huddled around him for more than 20 minutes, holding hands...
Officials of Swaggart's ministry had met reporters at the door and asked them to check their tape recorders and cameras at the door...