NAMES IN THE NEWS : Swaggart Cites ‘Spiritual AIDS’
Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart preached and sang against “rotten filthy corruptness” to more than 1,000 people but urged the congregation not to pass judgment on AIDS patients.
During the 2 1/2-hour service Sunday night at Gospel Harvester Church, Swaggart said “all of us have spiritual AIDS.”
Swaggart was invited by the pastor, the Rev. Allan Mushegan, who is managing a three-day Swaggart crusade scheduled for Atlanta in mid-February.
Before Swaggart’s 1988 confession of immorality, his Baton Rouge, La.-based television ministry reached more than 2 million households. It now reaches about 800,000.
His reported encounter with a prostitute cost him his affiliation with the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
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