Jim Bakker - How to Accomplish the Impossible with the Big Three Mountain Movers

Jim Bakker - How to Accomplish the Impossible with the Big Three Mountain Movers

Jim Bakker is a televangelist who was the leader of the PTL (Praise the Lord) Club with his then wife Tammy Faye Baker from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. Bakker's time as head of the PTL Club is the most memorable time in his career as he had a media empire consisting of not only a TV show, The PTL Club, but also a cable network, an amusement park (Heritage USA) as well as a luxury hotel. Jim and Tammy preached the prosperity gospel telling people it's okay to live lavish lifestyles by obtaining lots of money and excessive material possessions . Even God wanted people to live like this according to the Bakkers. Before they became famous, Jim and Tammy started out in Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) where they came up with the idea of the variety show format and made the show The 700 Club the successful program it is today. Afterward, they moved out to California to help Paul and Jan Crouch with their then new network, Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) where the Bakkers were involved in the creation of the Praise the Lord show that still airs on TBN to this day. Then the Bakkers left for Charlotte, North Carolina to launch their show, The PTL Club. It is clear that Jim and Tammy Bakker have played a major role in the success of the two biggest and most successful Christian media ministries today, CBN and TBN.

In the late 80s, PTL crumbles due to accounting and fraud scandals by Jim Bakker and his underlings. Jim also decided to move a couple of mountains of his friend, Jessica Hahn, in some hotel room which Jim also paid her to keep hush about the affair. Jim was hauled to prison for a few years and Tammy divored him in 1992. Meanwhile, Jessica did okay with appearances in some photo spreads for Playboy which I'm sure are tasteful and in TV shows (Married With Children) and music videos (Sam Kinison's "Wild Thing").

Jim was released from prison and started over. He has remarried, moved to Branson, Missouri and has a new TV show, The Jim Bakker Show. Apparently, Jim has gained a greater understanding of The Bible and he vows to no longer fleece people for every dollar they have and spend the money on himself.

This LP was released in 1977 when the PTL Club was just getting started. It was recorded at PTL Studios, Heritage Village, Charlotte, North Carolina. The liner notes written by Gary Paxton provide more information about the LP:

Dear fellow belivers:
My endeavor to describe Jim Bakker in a few short words is an impossible task. It would take several pages just to outline his accomplishments, several more to explain his failures, and still several more to explain the mountain of mountains he has encountered in his ministry. One thing I have learned in the few short years I have been closely associated with Jim, is that he will not run from or back down when he is faced with a mountain. In the type of ministry he leads as President of the PTL Television network, almost every mountain I have seen him encounter was so big no one (any of us) could see over or even around any of the mountain. In a society that constantly bombards you with theorys of white power, black power, green power, brown power, consumer power, boycott power and new ones on the list every day, thank God Jim Bakker holds fast to one that he believes all Christians should live by 24 hours a day every day, and that's KNEE POWER. In the words of the Apostle mark in Chapter II, Verse 22 thru 24, "Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Jim Bakker has proved to me beyond any doubt that you too can learn How To Accomplish The Impossible (with the Big Three Mountain Movers) just add Knee power, stir well into your daily living and ZAP - look people, no more mountain and in its place victorious living. Listen now as Jim Bakker teaches you How To Accomplish The Impossible (with The Big Three Mountain Movers).



Tracklisting:

Side One

1. How to Accomplish the Impossible... {28:49}

Side Two

1. How to Accomplish the Impossible... [cont.] {30:24}