![]() This was back when Falwell was more scriptural and fundamental than he was in later years. Before he "fell," there were some around here who thought he was near infallible.Īlthough the Charismatics had a stronghold on the air waves, one Baptist was on regularly as well, Jerry Falwell. I probably liked watching him better than any of the others because he was an entertainer. He wasn't too deep in the Bible, be he could-ah-deliver a message. With his meetings/concerts he was an appeal to many people. Swaggart was probably the best speaker of all of them. There were others, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson Kenneth Copeland, and Jimmy Swaggart. There was nothing about him that would draw me toward Christ. I thought he was a self promoting charleton. ![]() He had fake, perfect hair, obvious makeup, and an effeminate manner. He went through this big show of supposedly healing people. I remember a preacher called, Ernest Angely, who was on every week. Most of them were of the "Charismatic" or "Pentecostal" persuasion and frankly, I thought they were phony. ![]() I remember my mother used to watch some of the television preachers on one of the three or four television stations we could get, and sometimes I would watch a little, too. Before that I was a typical "good-ole-boy" who was raised on a fruit farm in the hills of central West Virginia and never thought much about God, the Bible, or "religion." Of course, I heard about God and the Bible since my early youth from my mother and others, but I never had much interest. After the Lord dealt with me for several months, I became a born-again Christian in 1980 when I was nearly 20 years old.
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