Televangelist Summaries September, 1995

Abortion ...... 124 Christian Nation...... 114 Christians & Politics ...... 121 Federal Government...... 123 Hagee, John ...... 120-121 Haiti ...... 114 Homosexuality ...... 115-116 Medicare ...... 121 Powell, Colin ...... 118 Reed, Ralph ...... 118 Separation of Church and State (Ashcroft Amendment) ...... 119 Spiritual Battle ...... 121 United Nations Conference on Women ...... 115 700 CLUB 9-1-95

The first hour of the show was a feature about the Brooklyn Tabernacle choir, which was a followed by a episode of the Answers series, in which Robertson answered questions from Regent University students.

Robertson: "I think Christians were intended by God to be the leaders. The says this in the Old Testament to the . It says, 'You're to be on top, not on the bottom. You're to be the head, not the tail. You're supposed to have enough money, which you can lend and help others and not have to borrow.' And so Christians have abdicated their proper role."

"Some years ago the citizens of Haiti made a pact with the Devil, that the Devil would free them from Napoleonic rule, from France, then they would serve him. I think that the people of Haiti need to break that curse, because it's been a curse on that nation ever since. I think there's a spiritual oppression that somebody like you [to student] needs to lead the people and say, 'We as a nation must break with voodoo. We must break with the occult. We must break with the past. We will not serve Satan. We are going to serve God ... "

700 CLUB 9-5-95

Hosts: and Ben Kinchlow.

NEWSWATCH:

1. NATO forces bomb Serbs again. 2. Hillary Clinton addresses the Women's Conference in Beijing, and has harsh words for China's policies, but feminists are battling the Vatican and other conservative groups over the language of the resolutions. 3. Hurricane Luis is perhaps the most threatening hurricane in 50 years. 4. The Senate returns to work, ready to take up welfare reform. [newsdesk] 5. Nation's Bank buys Bank South Corporation. 6. Sen. Claiborne Pell is expected to retire. 7. Senator Dole speaks up for making English the official language. 8. Many cases of Dengue fever have been reported in Central America. [enddesk] 9. A look inside Sareyevo, ravaged by war.

FEATURES:

114 1. Operation Blessing is helping the youth of Bosnia. 2. GUEST: A woman discusses her miraculous recovery from Lyme disease. 3. Robertson answers viewer mail. 4. GUEST: A repeat interview with freshman representative J.C. Watts.

700 CLUB 9-6-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. Hurricane Luis pounds islands in the eastern Caribbean. 2. Delegates to the United Nations' Women Conference have decided that the word gender is open to interpretation, handing pro-family groups a major blow. 3. GUEST: By telephone, Mercedes Wilson, a Guatemalan delegate to the women's conference.

Robertson: "Who is behind all this? Who is orchestrating these anti-family measures at the conference?

Wilson: "Well, in my opinion, there are two agendas in all of this U.N. conference. One is population control, and in this conference they have added the inclusion of driving a wedge between women and men. They say that men are guilty of subjugating women, and the homosexual agenda has grown out of that mentality. It is a very well organized group, though, of extreme feminists who are imposing their will on the majority of the people ofthe world. And as I told them, it is not only wrong what you're doing, or what you're trying to do to the people of poor countries, but our countries are not equipped to handle all the complications that promiscuous behavior brings: increased divorce, venereal disease, abortion, abandonment of the wife and children. This is just disastrous, because the document makes a concerted effort of separating and isolating women from men, and urging her to be independent by sending her into the work force to compete with men into professions that women should go to by choice, not by force."

Robertson: "If the world accepts homosexuality as its norm and if it moves the entire world in that regard, the whole world is then going to be sitting like Sodom and Gomorrah before a Holy God. And when the wrath of God comes on this earth, we will all be guilty and we will all suffer for it. And when we see

115 widespread abortion, when we see widespread break-up ofhomes, when we see widespread promiscuity, and all of this being officially sponsored by the leading governments of the world, then the world is going to be guilty. And when God moves, He will be moving in righteousness when He judges this earth, so just keep it in mind, folks. If you say, 'Well, it doesn't matter to me,' you wait, and you'll know how much it will matter when the wrath of God hits the earth."

4. President Clinton is using the executive order in a highly controversial, perhaps unconstitutional, manner. 5. There are new details in the Ruby Ridge incident. 6. Is a bull market underway on Wall Street?

FEATURES:

1. Robertson answers viewer questions. 2. GUEST: A man who miraculously survives a plane crash. 3. The above guest sings a song. 4. GUEST: David Pierce talks about ways to reach Generation X.

700CLUB 9-7-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The incident at Ruby Ridge has become the symbol for government out of control. 2. Bob Packwood vows to fight for his job despite the Ethics committee vote to expel him. 3. Hurricane Luis hits the Caribbean. 4. This is already the most active hurricane season in 50 years. 5. A clip oftelevangelist Reinhard Bonnke and Robertson praying for a hurricane to go away. 6. Republicans in Congress and the President are heading for a showdown over spending. [newsdesk] 7. An American medic says he wants to serve the , not the United Nations. 8. A new study says aspirin might prevent cancer. 9. Cal Rip ken breaks consecutive games record. [enddesk]

FEATURES:

116 1. Faith helps the people of Spokane, Washington make it through tragedy. 2. Tony Thomopoulous, the head of the Family Channel, discusses plans for the network. 3. A repeat of George Forman's interview with Ben Kinchlow.

700CLUB 9-11-95

Hosts: Ben Kinchlow and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The war in Bosnia could lead to conflict with Russia. 2. Republican presidential candidates attempt to rally support at the Christian Coalition's Road to Victory conference, which was the biggest in the group's history. 3. Senator Bob Packwood will leave the Senate soon, leaving his chairmanship to William Roth. 4. A number of people are getting money from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) through fraud, often by telling their children to pretend to have mental illness. [newsdesk] 5. At the United Nations Women's conference, a committee passes a resolution saying women have the right to control their own sexuality. 6. Researchers say a defect in the brain causes sudden death syndrome. 7. Airline attendants have a higher risk of breast cancer. 8. A United Nations reports finds that global warming is real. [enddesk]

FEATURES:

1. Evangelists have turned their attention to the 1040 Window, the area stretching from west Africa to Southeast Asia, the area in which most of the world's least evangelized people lived.

700 CLUB 9-12-95

Hosts: Ben Kinchlow and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

117 1. General Colin Powell reveals some political views on abortion, gun control, and affirmative action that would tum off many conservatives. 2. GUEST: Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, discusses a potential Powell presidential run.

Reed: "I think his problem, to the extent that he has one, if he does choose to run is that on the issues that the American people are really excited about, term limits, Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms, defending innocent human life, he's just not there. He calls himself an economic conservative with a social conscience. That's really a euphemism for somebody who is a social liberal or tends to be more to the left on some of these moral issues."

3. President Clinton meets with Congressional leaders to discuss the budget as a government shut-down looms. 4. Pro-family delegates are making some headway at the United Nations Women's conference in Beijing. 5. NATO warplanes conduct more bombings of Bosnia, prompting Russia to call for the United Nations to intervene again. 6. GUEST: Military analyst James Blackwell discusses Bosnia.

FEATURES:

1. The mother of Miss America talks about her daughter's deafness. 2. GUEST: George Otis of High Adventure Ministries.

700 CLUB 9-13-95

Hosts: Ben Kinchlow and Lee Webb.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The O.J. Simpson trial is in the news again. 2. Congress and the President are trying to avoid a budget train wreck. 3. One GOP welfare provision, the Ashcroft Amendment, would allow states to contract with private charities and religious groups to provide assistance to the poor. But some strict church-state separationists are mounting opposition to the provision. 4. The fate of the city of Hebron in the West Bank could determine the fate of peace in the Middle East. 5. The Senate Judiciary Committee took up the issue of religious intolerance in the first of two hearings on the Religious Equality Amendment.

118 6. GUEST: Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice. 7. The fifth annual "See You at the Pole" campaign is expected to attract millions of students.

Sekulow: "The way this legislation [the Ashcroft Amendment]is put forward it does not violate the separation of church and state. And it does not require a Christian charity to strip itself of its Christian integrity, to move crosses, to move words that might be, quote, offensive. It doesn't do that. It's a good bill. It's a fair bill. What it does is it allows charities, Christian charities, to participate in reforming lives, one on one, which is what the Church has been doing for 2000 years."

FEATURES:

1. Rod Stewart finds glory as a football player, but he doesn't find peace until he comes to the Lord. 2. GUEST: Charleton Heston, who receives a standing ovation from the crowd, plugs his book. 3. A quick lookback at the history of the Miss America pageant. 4. GUEST: More Charleton Heston.

700CLUB 9-14-95

Hosts: Ben Kinchlow and Lee Webb

1. Pat Robertson sits down with Yassir Arafat for an inclusive interview on the second anniversary of the peace accords. 2. Democrats and moderate Republicans soundly defeated a family cap on extra payment to teenage mothers who have more children. 3. A state task force calls for a back-to-basics move in California's public schools. 4. A call for educational reform is coming from all 50 states. The biggest test for the movement is taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where reform leaders are trying to extend its voucher program to religious schools. 5. GUEST: Allyson Tucker of the National Policy Center talks about abolishing the Department of Education and privatizing schools. 6. In an effort to increase the discipline level, some public schools are making their students wear uniforms.

FEATURES:

119 1. A miracle allows a girl to survive a tumor. 2. Terry Meuuwsen talks to a bunch of former Miss Americas.

700CLUB 9-15-95

Hosts: Ben Kinchlow and Lee Webb.

NEWSWATCH:

1. Republicans release the outlines of their plan to reform the Medicare system; 2. The Senate postpones a vote on the welfare reform plan. 3. Another segment ofYassir Arafat's interview with Pat Robertson. 4. As Colin Powell sets off on his promotional tour, political observers are trying to figure out where he stands on political issues. 5. The new conservative weekly, The Standard, hits the shelves this week. 6. GUEST: Fred Barnes, editor of The Standard 7. A new edition of the Bible has removed all references the editors deem sexist or offensive. Many are offended by this effort to edit the word of God. [newdesk] 8. Hurricane Marilyn continues its Northwest path. 9. Earthquake kills five in Mexico. [enddesk] 10. Senator and heart surgeon Bill Frist saves the life of a tourist.

FEATURES:

1. A man escapes the sordid world of alcoholism. 2. Terry Meuuwsen talks to former Miss Americas. 3. John Hagee, of the Cornerstone church in and author of the pamphlet, Bible positions on political issues.

Hagee: "People who work for a living, people who believe the Bible is true are going to have come up out of the weeds and stand up and speak up and stand for what the word of God teaches and what they know to be the truth. They simply cannot say, 'I'm a Bible-believing Christian' and continue to vote for politicians who support abortion. You can't say, 'I am for the Christ who says, 'I've come to give you life,' and then support a politician, a president who is for that abortion right. You can't vote for a politician whose issues are tax and spend."

120 Hagee on how to take a pro-life stand in the face of anti-Christian hostility: "The answer to that is that this is a spiritual battle. This is not just Americans versus Americans. This is the power of Satan against the power of truth. This is secular humanism versus the word of God. This is Christ versus , light versus darkness. This is very clear. Let the redeemed ofthe Lord say so."

700CLUB 9-19-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. publishes the unibomber's manuscript. 2. The Senate is expected to pass a welfare reform measure. 3. seems prepared to give up the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace agreement with Syria. 4. Robertson interviews Benjamin Netanyahu.

FEATURES:

1. A man miraculously survives a horrible car crash. 2. The man featured in the previous story describes his supernatural vision. 3. Robertson gives a teaching on the end of the age. 4. In the former Soviet Union, unprecedented numbers of people are receiving the gospel.

700CLUB 9-20-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The Senate passes a welfare reform bill. 2. Democrats are on the warpath over the GOP's plan to reform Medicaid.

Robertson on Medicare: "The program is busted. It's broke. It doesn't have enough money. And we've got to stop all this nonsense and get real with it. They have to fix it. And it's very wasteful, and it's not necessarily a good program. It's helped some people, but at a huge cost to the government."

121 3. A look at the Arab-Israeli conflict in Southern Lebanon and how it affects Christians. 4. Another segment of Robertson's interview with Yassir Arafat. 5. For the first year running, students are gathering at their flagpole to pray. 6. GUEST: Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, talks about the "See You at the Pole" campaign.

FEATURES:

1. Robertson answers questions about scripture. 2. GUEST: Keith Thibodeaux. 3. A repeat segment on school prayer.

700CLUB 9-21-95

Hosts: Ben Kinchlow, Terry Meuuwsen, and Lee Webb.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The political battle over Medicare reform has tempers flaring on Capitol Hill. 2. Should the U.S strengthen sanctions against Cuba? 3. Homosexual couples in France will now be getting the blessing of some city officials. 4. Peace may be at hand in Bosnia, but the people there still have to deal with the massive destruction. [newsdesk] 5. Another earthquake rattles California. 6. The House has joined the Senate in voting to scrap the federal speed limit law. 7. The National Endowment for the Arts has been spending taxpayer dollars on homosexual projects. 8. An elementary school in Los Angeles has installed a bell to tell students to take cover. 9. The ACLU says it is going after counties in Ohio that have the Ten Commandments on public property. [enddesk] 10. A unique program is attempting to persuade teens not to have sex by showing them what parenthood would be like.

FEATURES:

· .. 1. A woman has a stable, love-filled life in Uganda, but succumbs to the vices of contemporary college life in America.

122 2. A whole generation of youth in Eastern Europe has strayed from God. 3. GUESTS: Youth specialist James Alexander and musician David Pierce.

700CLUB 9-22-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. More details are released about the GOP's plan to reform Medicare. 2. High-ranking FBI officials testify in the Ruby Ridge hearings.

Robertson: "The FBI were the guys who went after Dillinger and Capone and the criminals. Now they're going after innocent citizens. People who just happen to possess weapons or [who] don't want to live with everybody else just because they're a little strange in the way they worship God or something, they decide that's cause to kill them all. This mentality is pervading the Justice Department and it's got to be stopped."

3. A drought is hurting the Northeast. 4. The world faces a grain shortage. 5. The House votes to tighten sanctions against Cuba. [newsdesk] 6. Researchers discover why cigarettes are addictive. 7-. Malcolm Forbes enters the Presidential race. 8. Dan Quayle will head Bob Dole's PAC. 9. Alan Greenspan supports the plan to turnS & L's into commercial banks. 10. Time Warner's purchase ofTumer Broadcasting is final. [enddesk] 11. Asthma is a serious problem if not treated properly.

FEATURES:

1. A woman in the Russian tundra is saved by The 700 Club. 2. GUEST: Larry Lea, pastor of the Lighthouse Church in San Diego.

700 CLUB 9-25-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Lee Webb, and Terry Meuuwsen.

123 NEWSWATCH:

1. Israel and the P.L.O. reach accord on the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank. 2. The government may default on its interest payment for the first time in history. 3. For years, the pro-life movement has seemed to be dominated by whites, but African-Americans, led by and Life Education and Research Network (LEARN) are becoming more prominent in the cause.

Keyes: "By his stand on the abortion issue, Colin Powell declared that he has no understanding ofthat insight [the connection between abortion and slavery], and that he is therefore not fit to occupy that office in the historic role."

Robertson: "People don't understand it's a target of literally genocide. It's to limit the Black birthrate, and that it why you see the sterilization clinics, the abortion clinics of Planned Parenthood, they generally in the lower income areas ... .In Planned Parenthood's role, it was essentially genocide, eugenics, to create a, quote, master race. That's what Margaret Sanger wanted to do."

4. Fairfax County, one of the richest school district's in the country, is facing a wave of youth violence, providing proof that more money doesn't necessarily mean less violence.

FEATURES:

The first day of 'Seven Days Ablaze," in which viewers are asked to call in to pledge prayer. The series is filmed at a tent revival meeting in Tidewater, Virginia.

700CLUB 9-26-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. Ross Perot announces his plans to form a third party. 2. There is a movement afoot to wipe out the United States Postal Service. 3. A volcano erupts in New Zealand

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The second day of "Seven Days Ablaze."

700 CLUB 9-27-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meuuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The prosecution in the O.J. Simpson trial finishes its closing argument. 2. Congress now has a plan for avoiding a so-called "trainwreck." 3. The Americorps project is under attack from Congressional Republicans, who says the program is a huge waste of money, funds liberal initiatives, and coerces rather than fosters volunteerism. 4. In India, there are rumors that statues of Hindu Gods Ganesh and Shiva drank milk.

FEATURES:

1. The third day of Seven Days Ablaze.

700 CLUB 9-28-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meeuswen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. The Middle East peace process enters a second stage. 2. President Clinton will meet with Congress to discuss his plans to send troops to Bosnia. 3. A conservative backlash against Colin Powell is growing. 4. Republicans are celebrating the year anniversary of the Contract with America. [newsdesk] 5. In Ohio, parents are up in arms after a teacher's writing assignments had some students making deals with the Devil. 6. A new poll finds that 30 percent of Southern Californians have considered leaving the state because of crime. 7. A new currency is unveiled. 8. It looks like the "smart card" is on the way.

125 9. Digital money is another step on the way to a cashless society. [enddesk]

FEATURES:

The fourth day of"Seven Days Ablaze."

1. A woman recovers from a brain tumor. 2. Evangelist Mario Murillio at CBN' s tent revival. 3. Scenes of the music at the tent revival.

700 CLUB 9-29-95

Hosts: Pat Robertson, Ben Kinchlow, and Terry Meeuwsen.

NEWSWATCH:

1. Johnny Cochran delivers his closing argument in the O.J. Simpson trial. 2. There is trouble in the West Bank city of Hebron. 3. Republicans in Congress (R-CA) are trying to stop tax dollars from being used to fund abortions at overseas military hospitals. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) is interviewed. 4. A church, with the help of the American Center for Law and Justice, prevents a strip club from opening. 5. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice discusses the group's latest victory.

FEATURES:

The fifth day of"Seven Days Ablaze."

1. Evangelist James Robison speaks at CBN's tent revival.

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