Leading a religious congregation for the sole purpose of enriching oneself or collecting political power.
"Bishop" Eddie Long, Jim and Tammie Faye
Bakker, the aptly named
Creflo Dollar, "Bishop" Earl
Paulk, "Reverend" Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Swaggart
With their
gold-plated bathroom fixtures that were funded by their often poor and elderly followers, preachers Jim and
Tammie Faye
Bakker were guilty of propheteering.