Gorman, not Bakker, would be the architect of Swaggart’s downfall. Swaggart’s exposé of both Gorman and Bakker effectively destroyed their ministries. In 1987, Swaggart turned on one of his main competitors, Jim Bakker, exposing Bakker’s infidelities to the Assemblies of God’s executive presbytery and then calling him a “cancer in the body of Christ” on CNN’s King, Larry (talk show host) Larry King Live. In 1986, Swaggart crushed up-and-coming rival televangelist Marvin Gorman by revealing that Gorman was having an extramarital affair with another pastor’s wife.

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Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery, Evangelist Jimmy (Feb. The entire time, too, Swaggart was busy tearing down those televangelists whom he felt were not worthy of being anointed by God. Swaggart’s blend of old-fashioned Pentecostal revival-meeting and rock-star pathos was netting his ministry millions of dollars in donations. He was the one televangelist who was respected by the media, as he seemed to practice the strict Pentecostal dogma that he preached on The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast. Despite this and a later public debacle involving a prostitute, Swaggart continued to preach.ĭuring the middle of the so-called holy wars between the multimillion dollar televangelists of the 1980’s, Jimmy Swaggart seemed to the one, straight-shooting preacher who was above the fray. After Swaggart made a vague confession to his congregation and begged forgiveness, the prostitute went public and described Swaggart’s unconventional sexual tastes. Jimmy Swaggart was an internationally known Pentecostal preacher ordained through the Assemblies of God when church officials received photographs from a rival televangelist, Marvin Gorman, showing Swaggart entering and leaving a motel with a prostitute.

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