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Jim and Tammy Faye Heaven: 15,000 videotaped episodes up for auction!

Posted by: Todd
Posted on: Wed, March 11, 2009
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A spokeswoman for Jim Bakker, who now lives in Branson, Mo., said the televangelist has been told the tapes have been appraised at around $8 million. He considers them part of his legacy.

The tapes provide enough content to create a channel exclusively showing “The PTL Club,” said Dean Becker, vice chairman of Ocean Tomo, the Chicago-based merchant bank handling the auction.

And, Dyer pointed out, the audience already knows about PTL’s fall.

“People can watch these shows knowing how their story ended,” he said. “It makes them even more intriguing to watch.”

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Ray Fowler on Wed, March 11, 2009

Something doesn’t add up here. If you broadcast 300 episodes a year, it would take 50 years of programming to come up with 15,000 episodes. (And watching one a day, it would take you nearly 50 years to watch them! I think I’ll pass.)
Russell Mckinney on Wed, March 11, 2009

Evidently, Jim Baker has forgotten his own book “I Was Wrong.” Didn’t he denounce his old “prosperity gospel” in that book? Didn’t he write about being humbled and ashamed? Now he wants to bring back the tapes of what he was wrong about and call them his “legacy.” He can’t have it both ways. Either he’s genuinely ashamed of the way he used to minister (in which case he would want the tapes destroyed) or he only acted ashamed to sell his book and get back into the ministry spotlight. Before I gave my life fully to Christ, I did plenty of things of which I’m now ashamed. But I certainly don’t want them shown on a t.v. channel that is exclusively devoted to them!
Adam McLane on Wed, March 11, 2009

You know you want to watch. I mean, I’ll watch a local school board meeting on TV. I’ll watch Home Shopping Network. Why not watch a lil Jim & Tammy Faye? You know, you could just man the 800 number and collect millions!
Jim on Thu, March 12, 2009

I don’t see a whole lot of difference between Jim and Tammy Baker and many of the men you refer to on this site on a regular basis. Jim and Tammy were trying to be relevant to the culture, so they created a television outreach and a theme park to minister to the church. Yet, they became so convinced that God was in their efforts that they believed that Biblical morality and stewardship didn’t apply to them. Is this not similar to many that you portray on this site? They often grow so convinced of their own uniqueness or specialness that Biblical truth seems to be suspended for them; therefore, they have affairs, spend millions on themselves, and even openly defy Biblical morality. I’m not a Jim and Tammy fan, and certainly not a J and T apologist, but I see that the sin that subdued them is still alive and well among many today. Ever time I hear a television, “prosperity gospel” proponent tell me to make sure I tell God the exact color of the Cadillac I want, I see shades of Jim and Tammy.
Todd Rhoades on Thu, March 12, 2009

Jim,

Be real.

Todd
Jan on Thu, March 12, 2009

Jim,

You don’t know what you are talking about.

Jim and Tammy Baker were not looking to be relevant. They were looking to make a buck and be stars. Way back at the beginning of their show, they tried to get my dad to run their t.v. show and he told them no. Why? Because they even then had a reputation for being crooks. He could list people that the Bakers had ripped off before anyone had ever heard of them. Sweet people who gave their life savings because they thought they were giving to ministry.

Anyway, it’s easy to off the cuff make comparisons and come up with wrong conclusions.
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