Jim Bakker Show - The Power Of A Biased Press - Stephen Strang
Aired: 2020-05-13
Duration: 02:33


=== Stand Up for Truth (02:32) ===

[00:00:00]  You don't write puff pieces unless you're doing something that you think they should be puffed, I think.
[00:00:06]  But it's amazing.
[00:00:08]  I remember William Randhoff first said to Puff Graham.
[00:00:14]  That's right.
[00:00:15]  And that made Billy Graham.
[00:00:18]  It really did.
[00:00:19]  But of course, in journalism circles, you don't want to do puffery because it's more like public relations or something.
[00:00:28]  But we have to tell the facts, but we also have to speak the truth.
[00:00:34]  The thing is, a lot of the secular journalists think they're speaking the truth, but they're doing it from an anti-God worldview.
[00:00:41]  So they would speak the truth and talk about these awful people that are protesting in front of abortion clinics, for example.
[00:00:50]  And these poor women are being denied their rights and their pregnancy.
[00:00:57]  And they think they're telling the truth.
[00:01:00]  But of course, we have a very different worldview.
[00:01:02]  We have a worldview that's based on the Bible.
[00:01:05]  And so that's the place that of what we try to do at Charisma.
[00:01:11]  There are very few Christian media, although now with the internet, there are some different websites that are coming along.
[00:01:20]  And of course, there's organizations like Christianity Today, which have been around a long, long time.
[00:01:26]  But Charisma has mainly focused on the charismatic Pentecostal community, which is fast growing and continues to grow.
[00:01:34]  And we have just kind of, the way I say it is that we try to report on what the Holy Spirit is doing today.
[00:01:42]  And it's not all good.
[00:01:43]  I mean, there are church splits, you know, people fall, you know, but also a lot of people are getting saved.
[00:01:53]  And, but, you know, in the last couple of decades, we've reported on how much persecution there is of Christians.
[00:02:00]  Who would have thought that Christians would actually be persecuted?
[00:02:04]  But there's a lot of examples.
[00:02:06]  Thankfully, they're still fairly rare in just the total number in the country.
[00:02:13]  But the thing is, they're increasing.
[00:02:15]  And if we don't stand up to it, they're going to come, it's going to be more and more and more.
[00:02:23]  And so it's very important that we stand up to people who really oppose the gospel.
[00:02:28]  And I'm not wanting to criticize anybody specifically, but there are people like that.