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Originally Posted by aron
On the other hand, you have "Gospel hucksters" out there, just trying to make a million or three. One example is a guy named Jim Bakker. He was an earnest young preacher from Muskegon, Michigan, who fell into the lucrative televangelism gig .... But Jim Bakker is still at it. He's hooked on the easy money. It's like a drug.
So I conclude that Lee was a Gospel huckster. He got caught in the Far East selling snake oil, came to the U.S.A. and repeated his business. Even when he got burned with Daystar and Philip Lee he managed to keep his empire, by purging any unwelcome voices of critique and setting himself up as "God's oracle."
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I remember when the Jim and Tammy Faye scandal hit the fan back in the Spring of 1987. I was on a jumbo airliner with many other brothers crossing the Pacific to participate in the Lord's move in Taipei, the evangelization of the island of Taiwan, the beachhead of the whole inhabited earth.
Some of us then discussed how "this ministry" had kept itself pure, thus preserving the "recovered" word of God as food for the whole world, as Joseph did in Egypt of old. Little did I know that at that very moment, Philip Lee was actively molesting the volunteer help and bullying LC leaders around the globe. Neither did I know about about a long trail of "angry investors" which were left in Lee's wake.
How naive I was. Just like Jim Bakker recycling old con games, we too believed all the lies.
