If you are dead, you are dead. If Jesus doesn’t breathe into your nostrils the breath of life… you will continue to be dead.
When I was a child, my mother used to listen to all of the tele-evangelists: Kenneth Copeland, Oral and Richard Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Bakker… there was probably more.
I’m terrible with dates and times, but I recall a time when my mother stopped listening to any of them. I don’t remember the entirety of it, but Jim Bakker had an affair with Jessica Hahn, they misappropriated church funds… something about golden shower fixtures and an air conditioned dog house…
Oral Roberts said something along the lines of I need money or God will kill me (paraphrasing)…
Jimmy Swaggart… some prostitution scandals…
Etc. Etc.
My mother ended up just shutting it all off, disgusted by the whole ordeal.
I’m terrible with dates and times, but I recall a time when my mother stopped listening to any of them. I don’t remember the entirety of it, but Jim Bakker had an affair with Jessica Hahn, they misappropriated church funds… something about golden shower fixtures and an air conditioned dog house…
Oral Roberts said something along the lines of I need money or God will kill me (paraphrasing)…
Jimmy Swaggart… some prostitution scandals…
Etc. Etc.
My mother ended up just shutting it all off, disgusted by the whole ordeal.