‘A most interesting life’: 4 Christian leaders react to the death of Jim Bakker

2. Harold Hunter 

Harold Hunter, chairman of the board of regents at Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary in Evansville, Indiana, took to Facebook to respond to Bakker's death.

Hunter remarked that he was “weary of the multitude of self-styled judges who seem to delight in the news,” saying that he “loved him in spite of his sins and his failures.”

“To me, the major reason for the fall of Jim Bakker is prevalent in the fall of many ministries and churches,” wrote Hunter. “His Board of Directors was packed with celebrity preachers, evangelists, etc., who were very experienced in their various callings but woefully lacking in good business organizational skills and solid financial acumen.”

“Bakker was without doubt an extraordinary visionary, but who unwisely surrounded himself with equally extraordinarily inept and unqualified people on his Board of Directors who led him into a false view of himself spiritually without accountability to his Board that tragically resulted in his personal spiritual separation from God and a financially impossible abyss for Heritage USA and PTL.”