![]() Friends, if you have the new heart today, bow your head and pray with me, pray with me."įor four days this week several thousand religious broadcasters and assorted believers in the electronic message turned the Sheraton Washington Hotel into a gigantic prayer camp. You see, friends, Jesus wants us to enter by a narrow gate. ![]() Did you ever notice that just before something super good happens in your life He lets something excruciating happen to you? He's done that with me a time or two. ![]() Pat might begin in that slightly stuttering, seductive, Tidewater, tenor voice: Sooner or later the toll-free prayer line flashes up on "The 700 Club" screen, and then Rev. He soft-sells the Lord with a Virginia gentleman's smile and a Merv-cum-Johnny mix of guests and topical talk. ![]() TV show amid plants and sofas and coffee tables. Or is it Pat Robertson, a different sort of video shepherd? Robertson, who has his law degree from Yale and his Phi Beta Kappa key from Washington and Lee, does his daily 10 a.m. What is it that takes you to the prayer closet? Is it Brother Jimmy Swaggart crackling over Channel 20 every morning at six o'clock from Baton Rouge with all that earnest, teary promise? "Neighbor," Brother Jimmy says, "you may THINK Jesus doesn't love you, but when you turn that corner you're gonna find the yard LITTERED with welcomes." ![]()
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