Christian Con Man Back In Bidness.................

[nhboy]

Jim Bakker dreams big in Missouri

"BLUE EYE, MO. • Forgive them for gawking. They were not expecting this.

"It’s a little like Disneyland," one stunned visitor says.

"A miracle," says another. "It is God’s work."

They stand surrounded by a surreal indoor streetscape of Italianate store facades and condo balconies. A grand chapel sits at one end and a portico at the other, the entire color-bursting scene playing out under a ceiling painted like a cloudless blue sky. It looks so real one woman decides to keep her coat on.

This is even more than Jim Bakker promised them. For months they had heard Bakker on his TV show touting his impending move here. Bakker, the disgraced TV minister of PTL-and-Tammy-Faye fame, said the day was coming when he would no longer broadcast his bare-bones show from inside a converted restaurant in nearby Branson, as he had for five years. He talked about moving to a sprawling complex being built for him as the new headquarters for his television ministry, the heart of a 600-acre development named Morningside."

STLtoday - News - Missouri State News

 

[RadioPatrol]

yeah obviously it is not about God and redemption ........ this loser cannot stay off the stage

 

[kom526]

yeah obviously it not about God and redemption ........ this loser cannot stay off the stage

Evidently Jim is a winner because he is still getting the $$$ to finance projects like this, so who is the loser him or his flock?
YouTube - Would Jesus Wear A Rolex?
Ignore the video and listen to the lyrics.

 

[godsbutterfly]

I did see he made sure to tell the reporters not to say the studio, show etc. was his - which is a good idea since he still owes the IRS. I personally knowof people who never stopped sending money to him or to Tammy Faye after the PTL scandal. You absolutely could not convince them he deliberately scammed them. Hopefully he isn't doing it again but I sure would go by his past record and hold onto my purse strings. JMHO.

 

[RadioPatrol]

Evidently Jim is a winner because he is still getting the $$$ to finance projects like this, so who is the loser him or his flock?
YouTube - Would Jesus Wear A Rolex?
Ignore the video and listen to the lyrics.

his flock, just like swagert, said he would step down after he got caught visiting prostitutes ...... he could not stay away either ....

Christianity is all about redemption and forgiveness, but some folks need a reality check and see that they are not doing any good for the Kingdom of God

IMHO

wiki on swaget

Sex scandals

In 1986, Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies of God minister Marvin Gorman, who was having an affair with one of his parishioners. The following year, Swaggart exposed televangelist Jim Bakker's sexual indiscretions and appeared on the Larry King Show, stating that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ." As a retaliatory move, Marvin Gorman hired a private-detective to follow Swaggart. The detective found Swaggart in a Louisiana motel on Airline Highway with a prostitute, Debra Murphree, and took pictures of the tryst.[1] Gorman presented Swaggart with the photos in a blackmail attempt to force Swaggart to come clean, but Swaggart refused. Gorman then presented the pictures to the presbytery leadership of the Assemblies of God, which decided that Swaggart should be suspended from broadcasting his television program for three months.

On February 21, 1988, without giving the details of his transgressions, Swaggart tearfully spoke to his family, congregation, and audience, saying, "I have sinned against you, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness."[2] (On a New Orleans morning news show four days later, Murphree stated that while Swaggart was a regular customer, they had never engaged in intercourse.)

Against the ruling of the governing body of the Assemblies of God, Swaggart returned to his television pulpit long before his three-month suspension expired. He stated, "If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell." Believing that Swaggart was not genuinely repentant in not submitting to their authority, the Assemblies of God immediately defrocked Swaggart, removing his credentials and ministerial license.

On October 11, 1991, Swaggart was found in the company of another prostitute, Rosemary Garcia,[3] when the pair was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the street. According to Garcia, Swaggart stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. When the patrolman asked Garcia why she was with Swaggart, she replied, "He asked me for sex. I mean, that's why he stopped me. That's what I do. I'm a prostitute." Rather than confessing to his congregation, Swaggart told his flock this time that "The Lord told me it's flat none of your business." His son Donnie then announced to the stunned audience that his father would be temporarily stepping down as head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for "a time of healing and counseling."

Following the scandals, Swaggart's ministry had been reduced by 85% as of 1995. While his ministry's annual revenue shrunk, his annual salary was still over $350,000 at that time.

nothing like a little good old fashion payback

 

[ImnoMensa]

Obviously all that paint was left over after Tammy Faye left him.

Stand by your man wasnt a song written for the painted hussy.

I am pretty sure there is a special place in hell for people who use God's word for their own enrichment.

 

[RadioPatrol]

Obviously all that paint was left over after Tammy Faye left him.

Stand by your man wasnt a song written for the painted hussy.

I am pretty sure there is a special place in hell for people who use God's word for their own enrichment.