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2007-12-08 00:07:19 · 10 answers · asked by dustandrags 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know what he did
To be more clear, the question is what are your thoughts towards what he is currently teaching through SonLife Radio?
2007-12-08 00:12:08 · update #1
He has various Radio Stations through which he broadcasts his sermons from. And he's been picking up momentum through the last few years.
The questions is more directed towards you thoughts on his current teachings.
2007-12-08 00:14:20 · update #2
Alfalfa, you didn't really read the question, did you?
2007-12-08 00:24:30 · update #3
I think nobody - including Jimmy Swaggart - is beyond the redemptive power of God's grace - and that is really good news for all of us!
But I wouldn't listen to his station or send him any money....I just have a natural aversion to televangelists.
http://www.jsm.org/explore.cfm/sonliferadio/
2007-12-08 00:15:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like Jimmy Swaggart. I watch him on tv but not sonlife radio.
I like some of the things he preaches. I wish he would get his confidence back because he comes across as defeated. I think it's way harder for him to live with what he did then for us. He needs to know that he's forgiven and it is like he never sinned to God. God doesn't even remember it anymore and Jimmy needs to let it go. People will not have confidence in him if he does not have confidence in himself. He needs to be a lot bolder. The bible says that the righteous are as bold as a lion.
2007-12-08 08:18:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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, who 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] (Four days later on a New Orleans morning news show, 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, he 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart
2007-12-08 08:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by Buke 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Never heard of Sonlife radio. What are you talking about????????
2007-12-08 08:10:47 · answer #4 · answered by white dove 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I run across him occasionally.
He has not changed. He sells a perverted gospel to those who desire it, and is still controlled by his flesh.
He is a fraud.
2007-12-08 08:19:04 · answer #5 · answered by Poor Richard 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He is minting money. He has made religion a business!
2007-12-08 08:18:41 · answer #6 · answered by aslam09221 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Is he still around?
2007-12-08 08:11:34 · answer #7 · answered by freekin 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe in redemption, as I do in discernment.
2007-12-08 08:10:35 · answer #8 · answered by Halfadan 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
JIMMY SWAGGART, THE CHRISTIAN PRIEST was caught with a prostitute.
2007-12-08 08:09:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
My opinion is: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
I'll not listen to him.
2007-12-08 08:09:36 · answer #10 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋