THE SPIRIT ABLAZE 10ty Region [ The Register-Guard I ~ljgene. Oregon '13(1117 139 PM <br />'bees' work a sound booth at the rear of the hall, and a young man with a high-end Canon <br />-o c.amera.regords the proceed rt s. <br />N 'de <br />Taylor,. i.rho is 44, grey.- ip in Cottage Gro; e, got addicted to drugs and got clean, and <br />went to Jimmy Swaggart Bible College in Baton Rouge, La. That was before Swaggart <br />disgraced himself with a prostitute and the school renamed itself the World Evangelism <br />Bible: College. <br />t Taylor has always been a natural salesman, and while in Louisiana he talked himself <br />into a job running a concessions contract at Louisiana State Universi-h7.'§oor_, he says, <br />he N.-as-pulling in $5,00o a jveel:. To this.day he tends not to iN-orry about monev. - <br />On Sunday the pastor spoke for an hour and a half in a freewheeling, forceful and <br />friendly -,e:rmPn_ that talked :about God's: plazls;.hu,man fra.ilti :and.tbe foibles.-of much of <br />American Christianitv, which he N`.-orgies aloud is much too concerned N.ith making peo- <br />ple rich. <br />"This: is :our secon campus," he told `the flock. ".We. 1 m e: -no:aaenda or time. frame. Rut <br />We, feel that in time God v.-ill give us four campuses. People are hungry for a plain, clear <br />presentation of the Gospel. If we can just see and love people, it will make a huge <br />difference. We are not out to be a mega-church with fast, quick, in-and-out Sunday <br />services. hat is really not out heart.' <br />He went into the crowd and talked to a woman who had been seriously injured in a bicy- <br />clino, accident two months ago. He praised the banner .wavers. The church practices <br />innmersion baptism, and TaVlor.in- A iced anyone ti ho had not ~-et been baptized to. sched- <br />We a baptism. <br />We-ll. over half an. hour into, his. tall:,. lie urged people to opeal up their Bibles, "quick!" <br />C:+ L,s LS o42t i'_n.?° or. chtirL1S to be over a, d Fni just getting prt,,.L~chili-11 1 getting ch n& <br />,".SiQ <br />Taylor the showman took a fresh apple, cut it open and began to eat it on stage as he <br />preached on.Galatians 3:16; :"Noiv to ~ braham and `his seed j,..-ere the promises n-lad-e.... <br />hit r,I'j i✓e c; A rcc tc!-UUa,d.Ci~ril~'wei,%lie`d~iGC nil, j_-S M6ro-41/tui,h-id`;ilui-CI'i~c ~ <br />7. <br />